English Explanatory Dictionary

object language

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A language or a part of a language that is used to speak about objects but not about sentences or propositions.
  2. the language of the headwords in a dictionary (in a French-to-English translation dictionary, French is the object language)
  3. target language; the language of the object code, the output of a compiler (not necessarily executable machine code)

Word forms

object language object languages

Related words

metalanguage object-oriented language

Translations

German: Objektsprache Romanian: limbă-obiect Russian: объе́ктный язы́к Slovak: objektový jazyk Danish: objektsprog Finnish: kohdekieli French: langue-objet Icelandic: umfjöllunarmál Irish: sprioctheanga Norwegian: objektspråk Swedish: objektspråk
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