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Define the word parser

"parser" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"

parser \pars"er\, n.
   One who parses.
   [1913 Webster]

"parser" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"

parser
     n : a computer program that divides code up into functional
         components; "compilers must parse source code in order to
         translate it into object code"

"parser" foldoc "The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)"

parser
     
         An algorithm or program to determine the
        syntactic structure of a sentence or string of symbols in some
        language.  A parser normally takes as input a sequence of
        tokens output by a lexical analyser.  It may produce some
        kind of abstract syntax tree as output.  One of the best
        known parser generators is yacc.
     
        (1997-07-21)