well-formed

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Adjective

well-formed

1. (linguistics, computing) Correctly written; syntactically correct; expressed in a way that obeys rules for constructing formulas in a certain language.

   If the parser says it is good, then it must be well-formed and is part of the language.

Antonyms

• ill-formed

Related terms

• well-formed formula

Translations

• German: wohlgeformt

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