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1. regular expression: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries [home, info]
2. regular expression: Wiktionary [home, info]
3. regular expression: Dictionary.com [home, info]
4. Regular Expression, Regular expression: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

5. regular expression: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
6. regular expression: Encyclopedia [home, info]

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Science (3 matching dictionaries)

8. Regular Expression: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics [home, info]
9. Regular Expression: The Computational Beauty of Nature [home, info]
10. regular expression: PlanetMath Encyclopedia [home, info]

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11. regular expression: Urban Dictionary [home, info]

Definitions from Wiktionary (regular expression) ▸ noun:  (computing theory) A concise description of a regular formal language with notations for concatenation, alternation, and iteration (repetition) of subexpressions. ▸ noun:  (computing, more generally) Any pattern for text matching or searching, frequently offering more or less functionality than a theoretical regular expression.quantifier, expression, algebra, lambda term, algebraic notation, Kleene star, formula, arithmetic combinatorics, simplified expression, canonical form, more... ▸ Words similar to regular expression ▸ Usage examples for regular expression ▸ Idioms related to regular expression ▸ Civic discussion about regular expression (New!) ▸ Words that often appear near regular expression ▸ Rhymes of regular expression ▸ Invented words related to regular expression