lexeme
<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, literals and punctuation. The lexemes are then passed to the parser for syntactic analysis.
Last updated: 1996-04-06
Nearby terms:
level two cache ♦ Lex ♦ lexeme ♦ lexer ♦ lexical analyser ♦ lexical analysis
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