object language

English

Noun

object language (plural object languages)

1. (philosophy) A language or a part of a language that is used to speak about objects but not about sentences or propositions.
2. (lexicography) the language of the headwords in a dictionary (in a French-to-English translation dictionary, French is the object language)
3. (computing) target language; the language of the object code, the output of a compiler (not necessarily executable machine code)

Translations

language speaking about objects rather than about language

• German: Objektsprache (de) f
• Romanian: limbă-obiect f
• Russian: объе́ктный язы́к m (obʺjéktnyj jazýk)
• Slovak: objektový jazyk m

lexicography: language of headwords

• Danish: objektsprog
• Finnish: kohdekieli (fi)
• French: langue-objet
• German: Objektsprache (de) f
• Icelandic: umfjöllunarmál
• Irish: sprioctheanga (ga) f
• Norwegian: objektspråk
• Swedish: objektspråk (sv)

computing: target language of a compiler

• Irish: teanga aidhme f
• Swedish: objektspråk (sv), målspråk

See also

• metalanguage
• object-oriented language