subexpression

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.13 in modern English

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noun

"The third part of the regular expression, \1, is the backreference and tells ColdFusion to refer back to the first subexpression[…]"
"Something to note that's shared between all subexpressions (as well as scriptblocks) is that the end of a line does not terminate the subexpression."

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- English expression English subexpression From sub- + expression.

subexpressions (plural)

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What does subexpression mean?

An expression that is a part of a larger expression.

Where does subexpression come from?

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- English expression English subexpression From sub- + expression.

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