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formal grammars

formal grammars is the plural of formal grammar.

Meaning of formal grammar

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.

Questions about formal grammars

What is formal grammars the plural of?
Formal grammars is the plural of formal grammar.

Words near formal grammars in the dictionary

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

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