LEXEME


Meaning of LEXEME in English

< grammar > A minimal lexical unit of a language. Lexical analysis converts strings in a language into a list of lexemes. For a programming language these word-like pieces would include keywords , identifiers , literal s and punctutation. The lexemes are then passed to the parser for syntactic analysis.

(1996-04-06)

FOLDOC computer English dictionary.      Английский словарь по компьютерам FOLDOC.