syntactic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   related to syntax or the rules governing how words and symbols are arranged

   The parser reported a syntactic error near the closing bracket.

2. 2
   adj

   involving structure or arrangement rather than meaning

   The two expressions differ syntactically but evaluate to the same result.

From New Latin syntacticus, from Greek syntaktikos, from syntassein (to arrange together), from syn- (together) + tassein (arrange).

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