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Lexeme

<grammar> A minimal lexical unit of a language.

Lexical analysis converts strings in a language into a list of lexemes.

For a programming language these word-like pieces would include keywords, identifiers, literals and punctutation.

The lexemes are then passed to the parser for syntactic analysis.

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