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Sign in to savethumb|Biohazard sign with a conventional symbol having no inherent relationship to what it represents thumb|right| An airport sign at La Guardia Airport thumb|A natural sign in the environment indicating recent human activity A sign is an object, quality, event, or entity whose presence or occurrence indicates the probable presence or occurrence of something else. A natural sign bears a causal relation to its object—for instance, thunder is a sign of storm, or medical symptoms a sign of disease. A conventional sign signifies by agreement, as a full stop signifies the end of a sentence; similar
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A sign is an object, quality, event, or entity that indicates the probable presence or occurrence of something else—for example, thunder signals an approaching storm, or a red light signals that you should stop. Signs matter because they allow us to understand and communicate about things we cannot directly perceive: natural signs work through causal relationships (like symptoms indicating illness), while conventional signs rely on shared agreements about meaning (like a stop sign's meaning).
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thumb|Biohazard sign with a conventional symbol having no inherent relationship to what it represents thumb|right| An airport sign at La Guardia Airport thumb|A natural sign in the environment indicating recent human activity A sign is an object, quality, event, or entity whose presence or occurrence indicates the probable presence or occurrence of something else. A natural sign bears a causal relation to its object—for instance, thunder is a sign of storm, or medical symptoms a sign of disease. A conventional sign signifies by agreement, as a full stop signifies the end of a sentence; similarly the words and expressions of a language, as well as bodily gestures, can be regarded as signs, expressing particular meanings. The physical objects most commonly referred to as signs (notices, road signs, etc., collectively known as signage) generally inform or instruct using written text, symbols, pictures or a combination of these.
The philosophical study of signs and symbols is called semiotics; this includes the study of semiosis, which is the way in which signs (in the semiotic sense) operate.