transcription, транскрипция: [ /reg'eksp/ n. ]
[Unix] (alt. `regex' or `reg-ex') 1. Common written and spoken abbreviation for `regular expression', one of the wildcard patterns used, e.g., by Unix utilities such as grep(1) , sed(1) , and awk(1) . These use conventions similar to but more elaborate than those described under glob . For purposes of this lexicon, it is sufficient to note that regexps also allow complemented character sets using ^ ; thus, one can specify `any non-alphabetic character' with [^A-Za-z] . 2. Name of a well-known PD regexp-handling package in portable C, written by revered Usenetter Henry Spencer <henry@zoo.toronto.edu> .