symbolic language

基本解释

It is the closest approach to symbolic language of any creature apart from humans.
在除人類之外的生物中，這種方式最接近符號語言。
With Mathematica, I had a symbolic language to represent anything—as well as the algorithmic power to do any kind of computation.
有了Mathematica，我就可以用符號語言來描述一切事物，同時可以用算法的威力進行任何形式的計算。
Mathematica is a computing environment providing support for numerous numeric and symbolic computations through a dedicated symbolic language.
Mathematica是一個計算環境，通過專用的符號語言爲衆多數值和符號計算提供支持。

What the whole note is, what all these symbols are are simply representations of duration so we have a symbolic language here that's going to represent the horizontal axis the axis of duration.
什麽是全音符,這些符號又都是什麽呢,這些就是簡單代表了持續時間,因此我們這裡有一套符號語言,來代表橫軸,就是時值的那條軸
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