In engineering, a symbolic language is a language that uses standard symbols, marks, and abbreviations to represent concepts such as entities, aspects, attributes, and relationships.
Communication using precise, concise representations of concepts is critical in engineering.
[3] The Nuclear Principles in Engineering book begins with a quote on symbolic language from Erich Fromm and its power to express and depict associations.
[7] In electrical engineering, examples include the symbolic languages developed for network diagrams used in computing.
[8][9] Ladder logic was originally a written symbolic language for the design and construction of programmable logic control (PLC) operations in mechanical and control engineering.