What is "object language"

n. 1 (context philosophy English) A language or a part of a language that is used to speak about objects but not about sentences or propositions. 2 (context lexicography English) the language of the headwords in a dictionary (in a French-to-English translation dictionary, French is the object language)(R:Nordisk leksikografisk) 3 (context computing English) target language; the language of the object code, the output of a compiler (not necessarily executable machine code)

1. n. a computer language into which something written in another computer language is to be translated [syn: target language]

2. the language into which a text written in another language is to be translated [syn: target language]

An object language is a language which is the "object" of study in various fields including logic, linguistics, mathematics, and theoretical computer science. The language being used to talk about an object language is called a metalanguage. An object language may be a formal or natural language.