Meaning

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

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

    Objektsprache

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

    Objektsprache

    объе́ктный язы́кobʺjéktnyj jazýk

More definitions
  • the language into which a text written in another language is to be translated
  • a computer language into which something written in another computer language is to be translated

Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
language speaking about objects rather than about language:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
lexicography: language of headwords:

Forms

plural: object languages
Singularobject language
Pluralobject languages

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the language into which a text written in another language is to be translated:target language
  • a computer language into which something written in another computer language is to be translated:target language

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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