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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
noise word en · NOUN
Meanings
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A word that may be included in source code for clarity but does not change the meaning.
For example, in the COBOL goto statement, written GO TO , the keyword GO is required, but TO is an optional noise word which carries no information and is used only to improve readability.
1975, Terrence W. Pratt, Programming Languages: Design and Implementation, page 381:
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A stop word, one ignored in search queries etc.
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