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},
{
"form": "best-formed",
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}
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"text": "If the parser says it is good, then it must be well-formed and is part of the language.",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"Correctly written; syntactically correct; expressed in a way that obeys rules for constructing formulas in a certain language."
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"(linguistics, computing) Correctly written; syntactically correct; expressed in a way that obeys rules for constructing formulas in a certain language."
],
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{
"word": "well-formed formula"
}
],
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"human-sciences",
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"mathematics",
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"physical-sciences",
"sciences"
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"translations": [
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "syntactically correct",
"word": "welgevormd"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "syntactically correct",
"word": "goed gevormd"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "syntactically correct",
"word": "wohlgeformt"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "syntactically correct",
"word": "dea-chumtha"
}
]
}
],
"word": "well-formed"
}
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"word": "ill-formed"
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],
"derived": [
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"word": "well-formedness"
}
],
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"form": "better-formed",
"tags": [
"comparative"
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{
"form": "more well-formed",
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"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "best-formed",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
},
{
"form": "most well-formed",
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}
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"type": "example"
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],
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"Correctly written; syntactically correct; expressed in a way that obeys rules for constructing formulas in a certain language."
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"raw_glosses": [
"(linguistics, computing) Correctly written; syntactically correct; expressed in a way that obeys rules for constructing formulas in a certain language."
],
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"computing",
"engineering",
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"mathematics",
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"translations": [
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "syntactically correct",
"word": "welgevormd"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "syntactically correct",
"word": "goed gevormd"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "syntactically correct",
"word": "wohlgeformt"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "syntactically correct",
"word": "dea-chumtha"
}
],
"word": "well-formed"
}
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