syntactic
adjective
syn·tac·tic
sin-ˈtak-tik 
variants
or syntactical
: of, relating to, or according to the rules of syntax or syntactics
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The o1 model correctly produced two different syntactic trees, one that corresponds to the first interpretation of the sentence and one that corresponds to the latter.
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Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 31 Oct. 2025
Ex-Core, a spin off of Donkervoort, does it differently, with sheets laid down in a smaller mold with a powder filling in the empty parts, and then cured with a self-heating tool until the powder turns to syntactic foam to push the carbon-fiber sheets into every angle of the mold.
—Michael Taylor, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
Researchers have found that deeper transformer layers capture more complex concepts, while earlier layers focus on syntactic relationships.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
Most of their bulk comes from blocks of syntactic foam—a buoyant, crush-resistant material made of glass microspheres in epoxy resin—that are padded around the frame.
—Susan Casey, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Aug. 2023
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Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 31 Oct. 2025
Ex-Core, a spin off of Donkervoort, does it differently, with sheets laid down in a smaller mold with a powder filling in the empty parts, and then cured with a self-heating tool until the powder turns to syntactic foam to push the carbon-fiber sheets into every angle of the mold.
—Michael Taylor, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
Researchers have found that deeper transformer layers capture more complex concepts, while earlier layers focus on syntactic relationships.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
Most of their bulk comes from blocks of syntactic foam—a buoyant, crush-resistant material made of glass microspheres in epoxy resin—that are padded around the frame.
—Susan Casey, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Aug. 2023
See All Example Sentences for syntactic
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“Syntactic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/syntactic. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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syntactic
adjective
syn·tac·tic
sin-ˈtak-tik
variants
or syntactical
: of, relating to, or according to the rules of syntax
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syntactic
adjective
syn·tac·tic
sin-ˈtak-tik
variants
or syntactical
: of or relating to syntactics
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