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sexp

sexp 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 sexp

pluralsexps

Questions about sexp

What is sexp the abbreviation of?
Sexp is the abbreviation of symbolic expression.

Words near sexp in the dictionary

  1. sexophobes
  2. sexophobia
  3. sexophobic
  4. sexorcism
  5. sexorcisms
  6. sexp
  7. sexpartite
  8. sexpat
  9. sexpats
  10. sexpect
  11. sexpectation

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