Chomsky hierarchies

A form of Chomsky hierarchy — A containment hierarchy of classes of formal grammars. From least to most specialized, the classes are: recursively enumerable, context-sensitive, context-free, and regular.

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of Chomsky hierarchy
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