"MWE" meaning in English

See MWE in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: MWEs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} MWE (plural MWEs)
  1. (computer science) Initialism of minimal working example. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: minimal working example Categories (topical): Computer science
  2. (linguistics) Initialism of multi-word expression. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: multi-word expression Categories (topical): Linguistics
    Sense id: en-MWE-en-noun-Ynjg~uvt Categories (other): English links with redundant wikilinks, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 19 81 Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences

Inflected forms

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