object language

Human sciences, Philosophy, Sciences A language or a part of a language that is used to speak about objects but not about sentences or propositions.

Human sciences, Lexicography, Linguistics, Sciences the language of the headwords in a dictionary (in a French-to-English translation dictionary, French is the object language)

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences target language; the language of the object code, the output of a compiler (not necessarily executable machine code)