lex

See also: Lex

Translingual

Symbol

lex

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Luang.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Luang terms

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /lɛks/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛks
• Homophones: Lex, leks

Etymology 1

From lexical analysis, from lexical.

Verb

lex (third-person singular simple present lexes, present participle lexing, simple past and past participle lexed)

1. (computing) To perform lexical analysis; to convert a character stream to a token stream as a preliminary to parsing.
   • 1994, Donna K Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology, The Second Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-2):

     Once this is done, each processor parses and lexes its own documents, using conventional programming techniques.

   • 2004, Richard William Sharp, Higher-level hardware synthesis:

     SAFL source is lexed and parsed into an abstract syntax tree.

   • 2007, Don Syme with Adam Granicz and Antonio Cisternino, Expert F#:

     Lexing and parsing do not have to be separated, and there are often convenient .NET methods for extracting information from text in particular formats...

Derived terms

• lexer

See also

• lex (software) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Noun

lex (plural lexes)

1. (linguistics) A specific inflected form of a word; compare lexeme.

Etymology 2

Latin lex (“law”).

Noun

lex (plural leges)

1. (history, uncommon) A Roman or Latin law (particularly in ancient Rome or in medieval Europe).
   • 1891, William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, page 55:

     The 19th and 20th lines of the lex on the tablet (which decree the repeal of the rectigalia) seem to be conclusive in favour of this and against Rudorff's earlier theory.

   • 2018 October 18, Paul R. Hyams, Rancor and Reconciliation in Medieval England, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 96:

     Sanctuary arrangements show strong parallels to other regulations in the leges concerning feud and the prosecution of theft.

See also

• de minimis non curat lex
• lex dubia non obligat
• lex lata
• lex talionis

Indonesian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin lēx (“law”).

Noun

lex (uncountable)

1. (law) law

   Synonyms: hukum, undang-undang

Derived terms

• lex posterior
• lex specialis
• lex superior

Further reading

• “lex”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016