Lux vs Lex - What's the difference?
lux | lex |
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of illuminance or illumination; one lumen per square metre. Symbol: lx
(computing) To perform lexical analysis; to convert a character stream to a token stream as a preliminary to parsing.
* 1994 , Donna K Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology, The Second Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-2)
* 2004 , Richard William Sharp, Higher-level hardware synthesis
* 2007 , Don Syme, Adam Granicz, Antonio Cisternino, Expert F#
As verbs the difference between lux and lex
is that lux is to put out of joint; to luxate while lex is to perform lexical analysis; to convert a character stream to a token stream as a preliminary to parsing.As a noun lux
is in the International System of Units, the derived unit of illuminance or illumination; one lumen per square metre. Symbol: lx.As a proper noun Lex is
a pet form of the male given name Alexander.lux
English
(wikipedia lux)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (English light).Noun
(lux)Etymology 2
Compare (etyl) luxer. See luxate.lex
English
Verb
- Once this is done, each processor parses and lexes its own documents, using conventional programming techniques.
- SAFL source is lexed and parsed into an abstract syntax tree.
- Lexing and parsing do not have to be separated, and there are often convenient .NET methods for extracting information from text in particular formats...