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Exactly as stated; read or understood without additional interpretation; according to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical.
Following the letter or exact words; not free; not taking liberties.
(uncommon) Consisting of, or expressed by, letters.
(of a person) Giving a strict or literal construction; unimaginative; matter-of-fact.

(programming) A value, as opposed to an identifier, written into the source code of a computer program.
(logic) A propositional variable or the negation of a propositional variable.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution_%28logic%29

The literal translation is “hands full of bananas” but it means empty-handed.
a middle course between the rigour of literal translation and the liberty of paraphrasts
A literal reading of the law would prohibit it, but that is clearly not the intent.
a literal equation
The literal notation of numbers was known to Europeans before the ciphers.

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