Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

symbolic expression

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.78 in modern English

Syllables: sym-bol-ic -ex-pres-sion
IPA

36

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

6

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A means of representing semistructured data in human-readable text form, mostly composed of symbols and lists and extensively used in the Lisp programming language.

Inflected Forms

symbolic expressions (plural)

Synonyms

sexp S-expression

Questions

What does symbolic expression mean?: A means of representing semistructured data in human-readable text form, mostly composed of symbols and lists and extensively used in the Lisp programming language.

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