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S-expression

S-expression is the abbreviation of symbolic expression.

Meaning of symbolic expression

Noun

symbolic expression (plural symbolic expressions)

  1. A means of representing semistructured data in human-readable text form, mostly composed of symbols and lists and extensively used in the Lisp programming language.
    Synonyms:
    sexp, S-expression

Forms of S-expression

pluralS-expressions

Questions about S-expression

What is S-expression the abbreviation of?
S-expression is the abbreviation of symbolic expression.

Words near S-expression in the dictionary

  1. s-cis
  2. s-commerce
  3. S-curve
  4. S-curves
  5. s-e-x
  6. S-expression
  7. S-expressions
  8. s-f
  9. S-factor
  10. S-factors
  11. s-hole

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Adapted from Wiktionary: S-expression (page history and authors); symbolic expression (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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