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APPLICATION-ORIENTED LANGUAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A language whose statements resemble terminology of the user
Synonyms:
application-oriented language; problem-oriented language
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
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)