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formal grammar

formal grammar noun: 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.

Noun

formal grammar (plural formal grammars)

  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.

Forms of formal grammar

pluralformal grammars

Questions about formal grammar

What does formal grammar mean?
Formal grammar means 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.
What part of speech is formal grammar?
Formal grammar is a noun.
What is the plural of formal grammar?
The plural of formal grammar is formal grammars.

Words near formal grammar in the dictionary

  1. formal education
  2. formal educations
  3. formal equivalence
  4. formal fallacies
  5. formal fallacy
  6. formal grammar
  7. formal grammars
  8. formal hall
  9. formal halls
  10. formal heresies
  11. formal heresy

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