A set of rules that govern how words are combined to form phrases and sentences. / (computing, countable) The formal rules of formulating the statements of a computer language.

plural of syntax / plural of syntaxis

(linguistics) The system of the internal structure of words (morphology) and the way in which words are put together to form phrases and sentences (syntax). / (linguistics, formal) Grammar.

(computing) Highlighting of source code with color, boldfacing, etc. to indicate its syntactic structure.

(computer science) An error in the syntax of a sequence of characters or tokens that is intended to be written in a particular programming language.

plural of syntax error

plural of syntax tree

Synonym of parse tree (more commonly used in theoretical syntax)