ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Startword

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Startword is a noun meaning (computer science) A string of letters that identifies the beginning of a valid sequence in a specified language.

Meaning

(computer science) A string of letters that identifies the beginning of a valid sequence in a specified language.

More Meanings

  1. (literature) The first appearance of a genre in print.

Example Sentences

Suppose that the colony starts its work from startword AA and let its terminal set be {a,b,c}
It was the translation of Ovid, Lucan, Seneca, and Virgil that gave English Elizabethan poetry the startword.
A variation on this type of normalization consists of using a combination of startword lists and exclusion classes, e.g. remove all comparative adjectives except those in a domain list.
In fact, a set of metarules and a set of hyperrules is given whose power exceeds by far this example and only the choice of a specific hyperrule for the startword restricts it to this example.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include word, wordmark, bareword, initial, wordstring, workword.

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