You've got an attention span so impressive that people actually want to study you. But you don't have time for that; you're too busy coding, or tinkering, or thinking, or obsessively trying make the world a better place through invention with that savant-like brain of yours.
User: A symbol is _____. an intentional departure from the normal order, construction, or meaning of words something that is itself and also stands for something else a literal and concrete representation of an experience of the senses or of an object known by the senses.
It usually means 2, but can sometimes mean 2 or 3. The reason it's so hard to figure out is that different people will use it differently. Because it's just a colloquialism, there are no hard-and-fast rules for its use. I have most often heard it used to mean 2.. few of something means more than two, but still a small number. Several means more than two or three, according to WordWeb, and usually means more than a few.