syntax

Definitions

General English

• noun the grammatical rules for putting words together into phrases.

Computing

• noun grammatical rules which apply to a programming language

Electronics

• In a natural language, the rules which describe how words and phrases are combined to form expressions and sentences. Such rules are taken into account, for instance, in voice recognition programs.
• The rules which determine how statements are formed, so as to be understood by a given computer program.

Information & Library Science

• noun a term in linguistics to describe the grammatical structure of a language

Media Studies

• noun the study of grammatical structure in language

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6 definitions in context
• General English
• Computing
• Electronics
• Information & Library Science
• Media Studies