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BNF

BNF is the initialism of Backus-Naur form.

BNF is the initialism of Backus normal form.

BNF is the initialism of Big Name Fan.

Meaning of Backus-Naur form

Noun

Backus-Naur form (countable and uncountable, plural Backus-Naur forms)

  1. A formal notation for context-free grammars.
    • While context-free grammars (which, by the way, directly correspond to Backus-Naur forms) define the syntax of declarations, statements, and expressions, etc. (i.e. the structure of a program), the regular grammars define the syntax of identifiers, numbers, strings, etc. (i.e., the basic symbols of...1991, Bernd Teufel, Organization of Programming Languages, Springer, page 26

Meaning of Backus normal form

Noun

Backus normal form

  1. (obsolete) The Backus-Naur form.

Forms of BNF

pluralBNFs

Words formed from BNF

Questions about BNF

What is BNF the initialism of?
BNF is the initialism of Backus-Naur form.

Words near BNF in the dictionary

  1. BND
  2. BNDD
  3. Bnei Brak
  4. Bnei Israel
  5. Bnei Yisrael
  6. BNF
  7. BNFdom
  8. Bnff.
  9. BNFs
  10. BNI
  11. BNIB

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Adapted from Wiktionary: BNF (page history and authors); Backus-Naur form (page history and authors); Backus normal form (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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