syntactic
sɪnˈtæktɪk
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Definition of syntactic - Reverso English Dictionary

Adjective

linguisticsTECH.relating to the rules for arranging words in sentencesTECH.
  • Syntactic errors can make a sentence hard to understand.
  • The syntactic structure varies between languages.
  • He studied the syntactic patterns in poetry.
grammatical structural
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Expressions with syntactic

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group of words with similar grammatical properties
Nouns and verbs are different syntactic categories.
features in code that improve readability without changing functionality
Python's list comprehensions are syntactic sugar for loops.

Origin of syntactic

Greek, syntaxis (arrangement)

Terms with syntactic included in their meaning

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linguistics
correctly follows syntactic rules in a language
technology
constructed according to system's syntactic rules
logic
syntactic expression of a logical proposition
linguistics
rule converting one syntactic form to another
linguistics
combining syntactic elements in language
linguistics
syntactic relationship in sentence structure
linguistics
relating to grammar that assigns word types for syntactic analysis
linguistics
co-occurrence of syntactic categories in a sentence

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  1. French:syntaxique, ...
  2. German:syntaktisch, ...
  3. Italian:sintattico, ...
  4. Spanish:sintáctico, ...
  5. Portuguese:sintático, ...
  6. Chinese:句法的, ...
  7. Japanese:統語的な, ...
  8. Arabic:نَحْوِي, ...
  9. Hebrew:תַּחְבִּירִי, ...
  10. Russian:синтаксический, ...
  11. Ukrainian:синтаксичний, ...
  12. Hindi:वाक्य संरचनात्मक, ...

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