Meaning of semantics in English

Examples of semantics

semantics
The first is that the noun in this construction already has some of the semantics of an ordinary verb.
In such a framework, there would seem to be no reason not to include social meaning along with 'ordinary' semantics and pragmatics.
Accepting the purely syntactic part of this extremely simple analysis, let us consider the semantics of the sentence.
The semantics of the language is based on a translation, and it exploits abstract data types rather than polymorphic types and recursion.
Ultimately, design search is about the gelling together of syntax and semantics.
This type of semantics is useful for goal-directed programming.
Action semantics is useful for reasoning about language implementations.
The law is also useful for the semantics of a typed imperative language with conventional syntax.
But this is a practical justification, not the recognition of the pregnancy of the syntax/semantics schizophrenia.
Consequently, a precise meaning (or semantics) must be associated with any logic programming in order to provide its declarative specification.
In the following, unless otherwise specified, we consider the ordered semantics.
Second, the semantics of interrogatives as currently understood cannot really be reduced to the presence of an operator in the above sense.
Specifying the role of semantics in children's lexical acquisition and naming : evidence from typical and atypical populations.
We will focus on three important aspects of computing with real number: computations, semantics and proofs.
We can also define a semantics of object specifications and show how it relates to store specifications.
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Translations of semantics

in Chinese (Traditional)
語義學…
in Chinese (Simplified)
语义学…
in Portuguese
semântica…
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