Wiktionary
symbolic expression
n. (context computing English) A means of representing semistructured data in human-readable text form, mostly composed of symbols and lists and extensively used in the Lisp programming language.
Usage examples of "symbolic expression".
It might well have been totally subjective, a symbolic expression of his being connected to this world.
I had to place my mother in fictional settings and try to mine real memories through symbolic expression.
From that point on there was a tremendous push into symbolic expression and the cultural consequence of symbolic expression which is technology.
The flaying and blinding could even be said to be a symbolic expression of her attitude toward male sexuality.