denotation

He warned police not to shoot him, saying he had a denotation trigger.

But then we bring grammar and syntax and diction and meaning making and connotation and denotation, we take the ocean of sign system and make it into sentences and words, meanings.

They have the denotation level, which is what they mean in the dictionary sense.

By denotations, the actual real-world reference of a given word or phrase.

You’ll find circles, as in denotations for birdies, under holes No. 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16 and 17.