WORD MEANING
Syntactic meaning
sin-TAK-tik · adjective
Relating to the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
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Pertaining to the rules and principles that govern sentence structure.
In computer science, relating to the structure of code or commands rather than their meaning.
The term is often used in linguistics, programming, and grammar contexts.
Examples
The linguist explained the syntactic structure of the sentence.
Syntactic errors can make a program fail to compile.