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<p>(such as the <a href="page.php?w=SECD_machine">SECD machine</a>), and give meaning to phrases by describing the transitions they induce on states of the machine.  Alternatively, as with the pure <a href="page.php?w=lambda_calculus">lambda calculus</a>, operational semantics can be defined via syntactic transformations on phrases of the language itself;<br/>
* <b><a href="page.php?w=Axiomatic_semantics">Axiomatic semantics</a></b>, whereby one gives meaning to phrases by describing the <a href="page.php?w=axiom">axiom</a>s that apply to them.</p><p>
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