terminal symbols

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

In a grammar, a terminal symbol is one that cannot be expanded into further symbols, for example a pronoun (such as 'it' or 'they'). In terms of a parse tree, non-terminal symbols usually label nodes wirthin the body of the tree, whereas terminal symbols label the leaves.

Defined on page 292

Used on pages 292, 293, 295