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FRACTRAN

FRACTRAN proper noun: a Turing-complete esoteric programming language based on the processing of fractions.

Proper noun (1)

FRACTRAN

  1. A Turing-complete esoteric programming language based on the processing of fractions.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Fractran

Fractran

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of FRACTRAN.

Forms of FRACTRAN

alternative formFractran

Origin of FRACTRAN

Apparently from fraction and FORTRAN.

Questions about FRACTRAN

What does FRACTRAN mean?
FRACTRAN means a Turing-complete esoteric programming language based on the processing of fractions.
What part of speech is FRACTRAN?
FRACTRAN is a proper noun.

Words near FRACTRAN in the dictionary

  1. fracton
  2. fractone
  3. fractones
  4. fractonic
  5. fractons
  6. FRACTRAN
  7. fracts
  8. fractuosity
  9. fractur
  10. fracturability
  11. fracturable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: FRACTRAN (page history and authors); Fractran (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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