syn‧tax /ˈsɪntæks/ noun [uncountable] technical
[Date: 1500-1600; Language: French; Origin: syntaxe, from Late Latin syntaxis, from Greek, from syntassein 'to arrange together', from syn- ( ⇒ syn-) + tassein 'to arrange']

1. the way words are arranged to form sentences or phrases, or the rules of grammar which control this

2. the rules that describe how words and phrases are used in a computer language

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