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In non-functional linguistics, a sentence is a textual unit consisting of one or more words that are grammatically linked.

In functional linguistics, a sentence is a unit of written texts delimited by graphological features such as upper case letters and markers such as periods, question marks, and exclamation marks.

This notion opposes that of the curve, which is delimited by phonologic features such as pitch and loudness and markers such as pauses.

This notion also opposes a clause, which is a sequence of words that represents some process going on throughout time.

This entry is mainly about sentence in its non-functional sense, though much work in functional linguistics is indirectly cited or considered such as the categories of Speech Act Theory.

In mathematics, computer science, and logic, rewriting covers a wide range of (potentially non-deterministic) methods of replacing subterms of a formula with other terms.

What is considered are rewriting systems (also known as rewrite systems, rewrite engines or reduction systems).

In their most basic form, they consist of a set of objects, plus relations on how to transform those objects.