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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
declarative
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
sentence
▪ That leaves open the possibility, however, that some declarative sentences or statements are not factual and express something other than beliefs.
▪ We went around the room to get them to say a declarative sentence.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ His sentences were like that: short, declarative, final somehow.
▪ Justification is, as I have said, a declarative doctrine that we are sons and daughters of a heavenly Father.
▪ Parsing Algorithm A grammar is simply a declarative statement of what forms a valid sentence.
▪ Technically the task of the programme designer is made easier by the use of training skills and declarative programming languages.
▪ That leaves open the possibility, however, that some declarative sentences or statements are not factual and express something other than beliefs.
▪ The system's linguistic knowledge is expressed by means of declarative rules and lexical entries.
▪ We went around the room to get them to say a declarative sentence.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Declarative

Declarative \De*clar"a*tive\, a. [L. declarativus, fr. declarare: cf. F. d['e]claratif.] Making declaration, proclamation, or publication; explanatory; assertive; declaratory. ``Declarative laws.''
--Baker.

The ``vox populi,'' so declarative on the same side.
--Swift.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
declarative

mid-15c., from French déclaratif and directly from Late Latin declarativus, from past participle stem of Latin declarare (see declare).

Wiktionary
declarative

a. 1 (context grammar of a verb, sentence, or mood English) Expressing truth. 2 (context computing programming English) That declares a construct.

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WordNet
declarative

  1. adj. relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration [syn: declaratory, asserting(a)] [ant: interrogative, interrogative]

  2. relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple declarative statements; "indicative mood" [syn: indicative]

declarative

n. a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact [syn: indicative mood, indicative, declarative mood, common mood, fact mood]

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Wikipedia
Declarative

Declarative may refer to:

  • Declarative learning, acquiring information that one can speak about
  • Declarative memory, one of two types of long term human memory
  • Declarative programming, a computer programming paradigm
  • Declarative sentence, a type of sentence that makes a statement
  • Declarative mood, a grammatical verb form used in declarative sentences

Usage examples of "declarative".

Granted that psychologists have described a whole taxonomy of memory, procedural and declarative, episodic and semantic, working and reference, should one expect similar underlying biochemical and cellular changes to be involved in each, or would every form of memory have its own special biochemistry?

Squire distinguished between declarative memory and procedural, or nondeclarative, memory.

And highly advanced nerds will furthermore understand that uttering declarative sentences whose contents are already known to all present is part of the social process of making conversation and therefore should not be construed as aggression under any circumstances.