The ship image, though intuitively arrived at, is not an arbitrary symbol.

And the frogs themselves, somewhat arbitrary symbols in the original, were tied more conventionally into the plot.

Where we have defined an arbitrary symbol , which is the reciprocal of Boltzmann's constant times temperature.

The address he shaped in arbitrary symbols was intended not to be read, but to be scanned automatically.

A name may be an arbitrary symbol, but it does not feel that way to its owner.

Besides the only way you can show a field of force on paper is with an equation involving arbitrary symbols.

Such symbols are usually flags and constitutions, historically constructed, artificial and often arbitrary, but no less animate gestures of power.

But a code in the true sense of the word is a series of arbitrary symbols to represent ideas and objects.

They built new systems of arbitrary symbols and formal rules for manipulating them.

Then all mathematics would unfurl from the arbitrary symbols, without any need to appeal to an external mathematical truth accessible only to our often faulty intuition.