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scannerless

scannerless adjective: performing tokenization and parsing in a single step, using a single formalism to express both the lexical and the phrase-level structure of the language.

Adjective

scannerless (not comparable)

  1. Performing tokenization and parsing in a single step, using a single formalism to express both the lexical and the phrase-level structure of the language.

Origin of scannerless

scanner + -less

Questions about scannerless

What does scannerless mean?
Scannerless means performing tokenization and parsing in a single step, using a single formalism to express both the lexical and the phrase-level structure of the language.
What part of speech is scannerless?
Scannerless is an adjective.

Words near scannerless in the dictionary

  1. scanned
  2. scanned-in
  3. Scannell
  4. Scannells
  5. scanner
  6. scannerless
  7. scanners
  8. scanning
  9. scanning electron micrograph
  10. scanning electron micrographs
  11. scanning electron microscope

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