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Dragon Book

Dragon Book proper noun: any one of several textbooks about compiler construction written by Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman, especially Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (1986).

Proper noun

the Dragon Book

  1. (slang) Any one of several textbooks about compiler construction written by Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman, especially Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (1986).

Origin of Dragon Book

The textbooks were published with a dragon on their cover art.

Questions about Dragon Book

What does Dragon Book mean?
Dragon Book means any one of several textbooks about compiler construction written by Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman, especially Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (1986).
What part of speech is Dragon Book?
Dragon Book is a proper noun.

Words near Dragon Book in the dictionary

  1. dragon blood-trees
  2. dragon boat
  3. Dragon Boat Festival
  4. dragon boating
  5. dragon boats
  6. Dragon Book
  7. Dragon Cay
  8. dragon curve
  9. dragon curves
  10. dragon flag
  11. dragon flags

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