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formal grammar

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A precise mathematical description of a formal language, consisting of terminal symbols, nonterminal symbols, a nonterminal symbol serving as start symbol, and a set of production rules that control the expansion of nonterminal symbols into strings consisting of both terminal and nonterminal symbols.

Word forms

formal grammar formal grammars

Related words

generative grammar analytic grammar
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