noun
syntax rules; syntactic rules
Technical term used in computing and linguistics to refer to the set of rules that define the structure of a language or data format.
このプログラミング言語の構文規則は非常に厳密だ。
The syntax rules of this programming language are very strict.
コンパイラはソースコードを構文規則に従って解析する。
The compiler parses the source code according to the syntax rules.