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–noun
1.Linguistics.
a.the study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language.
b.the study of the patterns of formation of sentences and phrases from words.
c.the rules or patterns so studied: English syntax.
d.a presentation of these: a syntax of English.
e.an instance of these: the syntax of a sentence.
2.Logic.
a.that branch of modern logic that studies the various kinds of signs that occur in a system and the possible arrangements of those signs, complete abstraction being made of the meaning of the signs.
b.the outcome of such a study when directed upon a specified language.
3.a system or orderly arrangement.
4.Computers. the grammatical rules and structural patterns governing the ordered use of appropriate words and symbols for issuing commands, writing code, etc., in a particular software application or programming language.

[Origin: 1565–75; short for earlier syntaxis < LL < Gk sýntaxis an arranging in order, equiv. to syntag- (see syntactic) + -sis -sis]
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syn·tax    Audio Help   (sĭn'tāks')  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
    1. The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences.
    2. A publication, such as a book, that presents such rules.
    3. The pattern of formation of sentences or phrases in a language.
    4. Such a pattern in a particular sentence or discourse.
  1. Computer Science The rules governing the formation of statements in a programming language.
  2. A systematic, orderly arrangement.


[French syntaxe, from Late Latin syntaxis, from Greek suntaxis, from suntassein, to put in order : sun-, syn- + tassein, tag-, to arrange.]

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syntax 
1605, from Fr. syntaxe, from L.L. syntaxis, from Gk. syntaxis "a putting together or in order, arrangement, syntax," from stem of syntassein "put in order," from syn- "together" + tassein "arrange" (see tactics).

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syntax

noun
1. the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences 
2. a systematic orderly arrangement 
3. studies of the rules for forming admissible sentences 

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Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
syntax [ˈsintӕks] noun
(the rules for) the correct arrangement of words in a sentence
Arabic: عِلْم النَّحو
Chinese (Simplified): 句法
Chinese (Traditional): 句法
Czech: skladba
Danish: syntaks
Dutch: syntaxis
Estonian: süntaks
Finnish: syntaksi
French: syntaxe
German: die Syntax
Greek: σύνταξη (γραμμ.)
Hungarian: mondattan
Icelandic: setningafræði
Indonesian: sintaks
Italian: sintassi
Japanese: 統語論
Korean: ?문법? 구문론
Latvian: sintakse
Lithuanian: sintaksė
Norwegian: syntaks, setningslære
Polish: składnia
Portuguese (Brazil): sintaxe
Portuguese (Portugal): sintaxe
Romanian: sintaxă
Russian: синтаксис
Slovak: skladba, syntax
Slovenian: sintaksa
Spanish: sintaxis
Swedish: syntax, satslära
Turkish: söz dizimi, sentaks
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American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition - Cite This Source - Share This
syntax

The sequence in which words are put together to form sentences. In English, the usual sequence is subject, verb, and object.

Note: Syntactic languages, such as English, use word order to indicate word relationships. Inflected languages (see inflection), such as Greek and Latin, use word endings and other inflections to indicate relationships.

[Chapter:] Conventions of Written English


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Free On-line Dictionary of Computing - Cite This Source - Share This

syntax
The structure of strings in some language. A language's syntax is described by a grammar. For example, the syntax of a binary number could be expressed as
binary_number = bit [ binary_number ]
bit = "0" | "1"
meaning that a binary number is a bit optionally followed by a binary number and a bit is a literal zero or one digit.
The meaning of the language is given by its semantics.
See also abstract syntax, concrete syntax.
(1994-10-31)

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Syntax

Syn*tac"tic\, Syntactical \Syn*tac"tic*al\, a. [Cf. G. ? putting together. See Syntax.] Of or pertaining to syntax; according to the rules of syntax, or construction. -- Syn*tac"tic*al*ly, adv.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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