lexical analysis

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Definitions of lexical analysis words

noun Technical meaning of lexical analysis (programming) (Or "linear analysis", "scanning") The first stage of processing a language. The stream of characters making up the source program or other input is read one at a time and grouped into lexemes (or "tokens") - word-like pieces such as keywords, identifiers, literals and punctuation. The lexemes are then passed to the parser. 1
noun lexical analysis (computer science) The conversion of a stream of characters to a stream of meaningful tokens; normally to simplify parsing. 0

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Parts of speech for Lexical analysis

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verb

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preposition

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exclamation

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