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| 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. |
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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