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2. | expression - expression without words; "tears are an expression of grief"; "the pulse is a reflection of the heart's condition" | |
3. | expression - the communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions; "expressions of good will"; "he helped me find expression for my ideas" | |
4. | expression - a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations; "pardon the expression" | |
5. | expression - the style of expressing yourself; "he suggested a better formulation"; "his manner of expression showed how much he cared" Synonyms: formulation | |
6. | expression - a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement Synonyms: formula | |
7. | expression - (genetics) the process of expressing a gene | |
8. | expression - a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit; "I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner" Synonyms: grammatical construction, construction | |
9. | expression - the act of forcing something out by squeezing or pressing; "the expression of milk from her breast" |
EXPRESSION. The term or use of language employed to explain a thing.
2. It is a general rule, that expressions shall be construed, when they
are capable of several significations, so as to give operation to the
agreement, act, or will, if it can be done; and an expression is always to
be understood in the sense most agreeable to the nature of the contract.
Vide Clause; Construction; Equivocal; Interpretation; Words.
(programming) | expression - Any piece of program code in a high-level language which, when (if) its execution terminates, returns a
value. In most programming languages, expressions consist of
constants, variables, operators, functions, and parentheses.
The operators and functions may be built-in or user defined.
Languages differ on how expressions of different types may
be combined - with some combination of explicit casts and
implicit coercions. The syntax of expressions generally follows conventional mathematical notation, though some languages such as Lisp or Forth have their own idiosyncratic syntax. |