lexeme
<grammar> A minimal lexical unit of a language. Lexical analysis converts
strings in a language into a list of lexemes. For a programming language these
word-like pieces would include keywords, identifiers, literals and punctutation.
The lexemes are then passed to the parser for syntactic analysis.
(1996-04-06)
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