[docs] PR15254: Add "AST" to the lexicon.

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 **ADCE**
     Aggressive Dead Code Elimination
 
+**AST**
+    Abstract Syntax Tree.
+
+    Due to Clang's influence (mostly the fact that parsing and semantic
+    analysis are so intertwined for C and especially C++), the typical
+    working definition of AST in the LLVM community is roughly "the
+    compiler's first complete symbolic (as opposed to textual)
+    representation of an input program".
+    As such, an "AST" might be a more general graph instead of a "tree"
+    (consider the symbolic representation for the type of a typical "linked
+    list node"). This working definition is closer to what some authors
+    call an "annotated abstract syntax tree".
+
+    Consult your favorite compiler book or search engine for more details.
+
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