lex
Roman legal term
Lex is a formal or literary word for law, borrowed from Latin and used in legal phrases: lex talionis (law of retaliation), lex loci (law of the place).
In computing, lex is a program that generates lexical analyzers—tools that break text into tokens for parsing.
The compiler uses lex to tokenize source code. (Capitalized Lex is a given name.)
Enacted written rule
- jurisprudencePhilosophy governing legal systems
- litigationLegal dispute process
- courtTrial venue or sports surface
- justiceFair treatment under law
attorney · verdict · plaintiff · defendant · prosecution · defense · jurisdiction · judicial
statute
Enacted written rule
- jurisprudencePhilosophy governing legal systems
- litigationLegal dispute process
- courtTrial venue or sports surface
justice · attorney · verdict · plaintiff · defendant · prosecution · defense · jurisdiction · judicial · codex
tokenizer
Text segmentation tool
- Roman LawsTwelve Tables
- Latin Wordsad, ad nauseam, et, caveat emptor, affidavit
- ancient lawsCode of Hammurabi, Hammurabi, Roman law, Twelve Tables, Ten Commandments
- Roman governmentconsul, consuls, senate, tribune, senators
- Roman Politicsconsul, senate, praetor, tribune, Roman Senate
- lexical analysisscanner, tokenizer, lexeme, lookahead
lexcustom
Habitual group practice
precedent · tradition · common law · unwritten law · convention
Informal accepted rule
oral tradition · natural law · divine law · equity · moral law
- Lex Luthor
- historical lexiconDictionary of past terminology
- lexical semanticsStudy of word meaning
- lexical analysisCharacter-to-token conversion process