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| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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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. | |
| From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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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) | |
