object language (English, noun)
expansion: object language (plural object languages)
Senses:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A language or a part of a language that is used to speak about objects but not about sentences or propositions.
topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: the language of the headwords in a dictionary (in a French-to-English translation dictionary, French is the object language)
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: target language; the language of the object code, the output of a compiler (not necessarily executable machine code)
Forms:
form: object languages
tags: plural