Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

object language

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.45 in modern English

Syllables
ob-jec-t lan-guage
IPA
27
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A language or a part of a language that is used to speak about objects but not about sentences or propositions.

noun

the language of the headwords in a dictionary (in a French-to-English translation dictionary, French is the object language)

noun

target language; the language of the object code, the output of a compiler (not necessarily executable machine code)

Inflected Forms

object languages (plural)

Phrases

object-oriented language

Frequently Paired Words

metalanguage object-oriented language

Synonyms

target language

Questions

What does object language mean?
A language or a part of a language that is used to speak about objects but not about sentences or propositions.

How to pronounce object language

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