sexp

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A form of symbolic expression — A means of representing semistructured data in human-readable text form, mostly composed of symbols and lists and extensively used in the Lisp programming language.

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Meanings

nounsexp (plural sexps)

plural sexps

  1. abbreviationcomputingAbbreviation of symbolic expression.

    […] HTML and CSS generation from sexps […]

    2005, Peter Seibel, Practical Common Lisp
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    The fact that lists and sexps can contain nested lists and sexps is important...

    1992, Michael A Schoonover, John S Bowie, William Robert Arnold, GNU Emacs: UNIX text editing and programming

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
symbolic expression
Cite this entry
APA

sexp. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sexp

MLA

“sexp.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sexp. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sexp,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sexp.

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