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syn⋅tax
[sin-taks]
–noun
| 1. | Linguistics.
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| 2. | Logic.
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| 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. |
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Syntax
Syn"tax\, n. [L. syntaxis, Gr. ?, fr. ? to put together in order; sy`n with + ? to put in order; cf. F. syntaxe. See Syn-, and Tactics.]1. Connected system or order; union of things; a number of things jointed together; organism. [Obs.] They owe no other dependence to the first than what is common to the whole syntax of beings. --Glanvill. 2. That part of grammar which treats of the construction of sentences; the due arrangement of words in sentences in their necessary relations, according to established usage in any language.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : syntax
Spanish:
sintaxis,
German:
die Syntax,
Japanese:
統語論
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.
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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).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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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)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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