"symbol table" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "symbol tables",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "symbol table (plural symbol tables)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Computing",
          "orig": "en:Computing",
          "parents": [
            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, Keith D. Cooper, Linda Torczon, Engineering a Compiler, Elsevier, page 239",
          "text": "This central repository, called a symbol table, becomes an integral part of the compiler's IR. The symbol table localizes information derived from potentially distant parts of the source code. It makes such information easily and efficiently available, and it simplifies the design and implementation of any code that must refer to information about variables derived earlier in compilation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A data structure where symbols (identifiers) are associated with information relating to their declaration or appearance in the source code."
      ],
      "id": "en-symbol_table-en-noun-eCFZfzjl",
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "data structure",
          "data structure"
        ],
        [
          "symbol",
          "symbol"
        ],
        [
          "identifier",
          "identifier"
        ],
        [
          "source code",
          "source code"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing) A data structure where symbols (identifiers) are associated with information relating to their declaration or appearance in the source code."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "data structure containing identifiers",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Symboltabelle"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "symbol table"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "symbol tables",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "symbol table (plural symbol tables)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Computing"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, Keith D. Cooper, Linda Torczon, Engineering a Compiler, Elsevier, page 239",
          "text": "This central repository, called a symbol table, becomes an integral part of the compiler's IR. The symbol table localizes information derived from potentially distant parts of the source code. It makes such information easily and efficiently available, and it simplifies the design and implementation of any code that must refer to information about variables derived earlier in compilation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A data structure where symbols (identifiers) are associated with information relating to their declaration or appearance in the source code."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "data structure",
          "data structure"
        ],
        [
          "symbol",
          "symbol"
        ],
        [
          "identifier",
          "identifier"
        ],
        [
          "source code",
          "source code"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing) A data structure where symbols (identifiers) are associated with information relating to their declaration or appearance in the source code."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "data structure containing identifiers",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Symboltabelle"
    }
  ],
  "word": "symbol table"
}