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Prolog¹

Where it comes from

From French Prolog, abbreviation of Programmation en Logique.

proper noun

  1. A programming language developed in the 1970s for artificial intelligence and logic programming. Prolog has been used for many purposes, but its inventor, Alain Colmerauer, was interested in computational linguistics, and this remains a classic application for the language. Moreover, Prolog offers a number of tools which make life easier for computational linguists, and we are now going to star

prolog²

noun prologs

  1. US, uncommon Uncommon spelling of prologue

verb prologs · prologing · prologed

  1. US, uncommon Uncommon spelling of prologue

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"prolog." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/prolog.

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@misc{prolog_2026,
  title = {prolog},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/prolog},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}