language lesson | a period of instruction learning a language |
foreign direct investment | a joint venture between a foreign company and a United States company |
language teaching | teaching people to speak and understand a foreign language |
foreign direct investment | investing in United States businesses by foreign citizens (often involves stock ownership of the business) |
language area language zone | a large cortical area (in the left hemisphere in most people) containing all the centers associated with language |
language speech | the mental faculty or power of vocal communication, language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals |
language barrier | barrier to communication resulting from speaking different languages |
language learning | learning to use a language |
linguistic process language | the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication, he didn't have the language to express his feelings |
language requirement | a requirement that a student know certain languages |
natural language processing NLP human language technology | the branch of information science that deals with natural language information |
language linguistic communication | a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols, he taught foreign languages, the language introduced is standard throughout the text, the speed with which a program can be executed depends on the language in which it is written |
dead language | a language that is no longer learned as a native language |
source language | a language that is to be translated into another language |
object language target language | the language into which a text written in another language is to be translated |
language unit linguistic unit | one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed |
terminology nomenclature language | a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline, legal terminology, biological nomenclature, the language of sociology |
written communication written language black and white | communication by means of written symbols (either printed or handwritten) |
machine code machine language | a set of instructions coded so that the computer can use it directly without further translation |
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act FISA | an act passed by Congress in to establish procedures for requesting judicial authorization for foreign intelligence surveillance and to create the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, intended to increase United States counterintelligence, separate from ordinary law enforcement surveillance |
authoring language | software that can be used to develop interactive computer programs without the technically demanding task of computer programming |
natural language processor natural language processing application | an application program that deals with natural language text |
foreign policy | a policy governing international relations |
markup language | a set of symbols and rules for their use when doing a markup of a document |
standard generalized markup language SGML | (computer science) a standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents, a set of rules for using whatever markup vocabulary is adopted |
hypertext markup language hypertext mark-up language HTML | a set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents |
sign language signing | language expressed by visible hand gestures |
ASL American sign language | the sign language used in the United States |
body language | communication via the movements or attitudes of the body |
artificial language | a language that is deliberately created for a specific purpose |
programming language programing language | (computer science) a language designed for programming computers |
algebraic language | an algorithmic language having statements that resemble algebraic expressions |
algorithmic language | an artificial language designed to express algorithms |
application-oriented language problem-oriented language | a language whose statements resemble terminology of the user |
assembly language | a low-level programing language, close approximation to machine language |
command language query language search language | a source language consisting of procedural operators that invoke functions to be executed |
computer language computer-oriented language machine language machine-oriented language | a programming language designed for use on a specific class of computers |
high-level language | a problem-oriented language requiring little knowledge of the computer on which it will be run |
jobontrol language | a problem-oriented language used to describe job requirements to an operating system |
multidimensional language | a programming language whose expressions are assembled in more than one dimension |
object language target language | a computer language into which something written in another computer language is to be translated |
object-oriented programming language object-oriented programing language | (computer science) a programming language that enables the programmer to associate a set of procedures with each type of data structure, C is an object-oriented programming language that is an extension of C |
one-dimensional language | a programming language whose expressions are represented by strings of characters |
stratified language | a language that cannot be used as its own metalanguage |
syntax language | a language used to describe the syntax of another language |
unstratified language | a programming language that (like natural language) can be used as its own metalanguage |
LISP list-processing language | a flexible procedure-oriented programing language that manipulates symbols in the form of lists |
native language | the language that a person has spoken from earliest childhood |
indigenous language | a language that originated in a specified place and was not brought to that place from elsewhere |
natural language tongue | a human written or spoken language used by a community, opposed to e.g. a computer language |