Page 1 of 8. Connotation and Denotation. Connotation and Denotation. Connotation and Denotation are two principal methods of describing the meanings of. words. Connotation refers to the wide array of positive and negative associations that. most words naturally carry with them, whereas denotation is the precise, literal definition. of a word that might be found in a dictionary.
Medical Definition of orphan drug. : a drug that is not developed or marketed because its extremely limited use (as in the treatment of a rare disease) makes it unprofitable.
An orphan record is a record with a reference to another record that does not exist â for example, an order record that references a customer record that does not exist. When you design a database, you divide your information into tables, each of which has a primary key.