expression

  1. Noun.  A particular way of phrasing an idea.
  2. Noun.  A colloquialism or idiom.
  3. Noun.  A facial appearance usually associated with an emotion.
  4. Noun.  (mathematics) An arrangement of symbols denoting values, operations performed on them, and grouping symbols.
  5. Noun.  (biology) The process of translating a gene into a protein.
  6. Noun.  (context, programming) A piece of code in a high-level language that returns a value.
  7. Noun.  Of a mother, the process of expressing milk.

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