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Give names to regular expressions and then define regular expressions using these names as if they were symbols. A sequence of definitions of the form d 1 = r 1 d 2 = r 2 .......... d n = r n where d i is a distinct name and r i is a regular expression over the symbols in S È {d 1 , d 2 , ..., d i-1 }