Definitions for object language
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
ob′ject lan`guage(n.)
the language to which a metalanguage refers.
Category: Language/Linguistics, Philosphy
Origin of object language:
1930–35
Princeton's WordNet
object language, target language(noun)
a computer language into which something written in another computer language is to be translated
object language, target language(noun)
the language into which a text written in another language is to be translated
Wiktionary
object language(Noun)
A language or a part of a language that is used to speak about objects but not about sentences or propositions.
object language(Noun)
the language of the headwords in a dictionary (in a French-to-English translation dictionary, French is the object language)
object language(Noun)
target language; the language of the object code, the output of a compiler (not necessarily executable machine code)
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