Object language

noun

Definitions

1.nounA language or a part of a language that is used to speak about objects but not about sentences or propositions.

2.nounThe language of the headwords in a dictionary (in a French-to-English translation dictionary, French is the object language)

3.nounTarget language; the language of the object code, the output of a compiler (not necessarily executable machine code)

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