APPLICATION-ORIENTED LANGUAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does application-oriented language mean? 

• APPLICATION-ORIENTED LANGUAGE (noun)
  The noun APPLICATION-ORIENTED LANGUAGE has 1 sense:

1. a language whose statements resemble terminology of the user

  Familiarity information: APPLICATION-ORIENTED LANGUAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APPLICATION-ORIENTED LANGUAGE (noun)

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Meaning:

A language whose statements resemble terminology of the user

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

application-oriented language; problem-oriented language

Hypernyms ("application-oriented language" is a kind of...):

source language (a language that is to be translated into another language)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "application-oriented language"):

high-level language (a problem-oriented language requiring little knowledge of the computer on which it will be run)

job-control language (a problem-oriented language used to describe job requirements to an operating system)