sublanguage
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Is sublanguage a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (computing) A subset of a language, in particular of a programming language.Examples: "DML is considered a sublanguage of SQL. It's concerned with manipulating data stored in the database. DML consists of four commonly used statements: INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, and MERGE."
2. (linguistics) A language restricted to a specific context, such as a particular subject area.Examples: "the sublanguage of weather bulletins"; "We define sublanguage here as the particular language used in a body of texts dealing with a circumscribed subject area (often reports or articles on a technical speciality or science subfield), in which the authors share a common vocabulary and common habits of word usage."; "Sublanguages are usually taken from science and technology domains and are restricted to a particular topic."
Definition source: Wiktionary