Below you will find example sentences with "regular languages". The examples show how this phrase is used in real sentences and which words often surround it.

Regular Languages in a sentence

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Words in this phrase

regular languages

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • regular can mean: Bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to secular). Common word
  • languages can mean: plural of language Frequent word

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

grammars 3× size 3× describe 2× described 2× language 2× used 2× expressions 2× finite 2× automata 2× nfas 2× empty 2× reverse 1×

Related phrases

regular season programming languages indigenous languages sign languages official languages romance languages european languages regular basis formal languages

Other phrases with this word

Other phrases with regular:

regular season 20× regular basis 10×

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Same start:

regular season regular basis

Same ending:

programming languages indigenous languages sign languages official languages romance languages european languages

Example types with regular languages

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Short example sentences

Regular languages are commonly used to define search patterns and the lexical structure of programming languages. (16 words)

The right regular grammars describe the reverses of all such languages, that is, exactly the regular languages as well. (19 words)

If empty productions are disallowed, only all regular languages that do not include the empty string can be generated. (19 words)

Longer example sentences

Luckily, there is a simple mapping from regular expressions to the more general nondeterministic finite automata (NFAs) that does not lead to such a blowup in size; for this reason NFAs are often used as alternative representations of regular languages. (40 words)

Some classes of regular languages can only be described by deterministic finite automata whose size grows exponentially in the size of the shortest equivalent regular expressions. (26 words)

While regular grammars can only describe regular languages, the reverse is not true: regular languages can also be described by non-regular grammars. (23 words)

Example sentences (8)

While regular grammars can only describe regular languages, the reverse is not true: regular languages can also be described by non-regular grammars.

By definition, the languages accepted by FSMs are the regular languages —; a language is regular if there is some FSM that accepts it.

The right regular grammars describe the reverses of all such languages, that is, exactly the regular languages as well.

Regular languages are commonly used to define search patterns and the lexical structure of programming languages.

Luckily, there is a simple mapping from regular expressions to the more general nondeterministic finite automata (NFAs) that does not lead to such a blowup in size; for this reason NFAs are often used as alternative representations of regular languages.

Some classes of regular languages can only be described by deterministic finite automata whose size grows exponentially in the size of the shortest equivalent regular expressions.

If empty productions are disallowed, only all regular languages that do not include the empty string can be generated.

Not all regular languages can be induced in this way (see language identification in the limit ), but many can.