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non-terminal

adj

Etymology

From non- + terminal.

  1. derived from terminus — “a bound, boundary, limit, end”
  2. borrowed from terminalis — “pertaining to a boundary or to the end, terminal, final”
  3. prefixed as non-terminal — “non + terminal”

Definitions

  1. Not terminal.

  2. A non-terminal symbol in a formal grammar.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for non-terminal. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA