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.
symbol. 1  something that stands for, represents, or suggests another thing; specif., an object used to represent something abstract: the dove is a symbol of peace. 2  a written or printed mark, letter, abbreviation, etc. standing for an object, quality, process, quantity, etc., as in music, mathematics, or chemistry.