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syntax definition

syn·tax (sintaks′)

noun

  1. Now Rare orderly or systematic arrangement
  2. Gram., Linguis.
    1. the arrangement of and relationships among words, phrases, and clauses forming sentences; sentence structure
    2. the study of this
  3. Comput.
    1. the structure of statements in a computer language
    2. the rules governing this structure
  4. Logic syntactics as applied to language in the abstract

Etymology: Fr syntaxe < LL syntaxis < Gr < syntassein, to join, put together < syn-, together + tassein, to arrange: see taxis

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