- the act or process of analyzing sentences or their elements grammatically: Many sites offer additional help for those studying classical Greek texts, such as quick parsing and translation.
- the act or process of analyzing language, behavior, events, etc., closely or minutely to discover their implications or deeper meaning: At first I interpreted the case the same way, but on second thought, and after careful parsing of the press releases, it's not as clear-cut.There will always be opportunities to entertain disquisitions on the subject, more detailed parsing of the circumstances, and so on.
- the process of analyzing character strings in order to associate them with syntactic units of the underlying grammar: If the file path contains spaces, use double quotes to ensure correct parsing.