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semantic analysis

semantic analysis noun: the process of relating syntactic structures, from the levels of phrases, clauses, sentences and paragraphs to the level of the writing as a whole, to their language-independent meanings, removing features specific to particular linguistic and cultural contexts, to the extent that such a project is possible.

Noun

semantic analysis (plural semantic analyses)

  1. The process of relating syntactic structures, from the levels of phrases, clauses, sentences and paragraphs to the level of the writing as a whole, to their language-independent meanings, removing features specific to particular linguistic and cultural contexts, to the extent that such a project is possible.
  2. The phase in which a compiler adds semantic information to the parse tree and builds the symbol table.

Forms of semantic analysis

pluralsemantic analyses

Questions about semantic analysis

What does semantic analysis mean?
Semantic analysis means the process of relating syntactic structures, from the levels of phrases, clauses, sentences and paragraphs to the level of the writing as a whole, to their language-independent meanings, removing features specific to particular linguistic and cultural contexts, to the extent that such a project is possible.
What part of speech is semantic analysis?
Semantic analysis is a noun.
What is the plural of semantic analysis?
The plural of semantic analysis is semantic analyses.

Words near semantic analysis in the dictionary

  1. Semans
  2. semanteme
  3. semantemes
  4. semantic
  5. semantic analyses
  6. semantic analysis
  7. semantic bleaching
  8. semantic bleachings
  9. semantic borrowing
  10. semantic borrowings
  11. semantic calque

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