A noun is an atom or a cell, which is an ordered pair of nouns. This definition is recursive and ultimately means that a noun is a finite size binary tree whose leaves are atoms. A noun is the basic data structure in Nock.

Further Reading

• The Hoon Tutorial: Our guide to learning the Hoon programming language.
  • Lesson 1.2: Nouns: A Hoon Tutoral lesson that explains how nouns work.
• The Nock explanation: Includes a low-level explanation of nouns.