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English
Noun
object language (plural object languages)
- (philosophy) A language or a part of a language that is used to speak about objects but not about sentences or propositions.
- (lexicography) the language of the headwords in a dictionary (in a French-to-English translation dictionary, French is the object language)[1]
- (computing) target language; the language of the object code, the output of a compiler (not necessarily executable machine code)
Translations
language speaking about objects rather than about language
lexicography: language of headwords
computing: target language of a compiler
See also
References
- ^ Nordisk leksikografisk ordbok (1997) →ISBN
