Symbolic Constants in C – Symbolic Constant is a name that substitutes for a sequence of characters or a numeric constant, a character constant or a string constant.
When program is compiled each occurrence of a symbolic constant is replaced by its corresponding character sequence.
symbolic constant is a name given to some numeric constant, or a character constant or string constant, or any other constants. Symbolic constant names are also known as constant identifiers. Pre-processor directive #define is used for defining symbolic constants.