Associations to the word «Lemma»
Noun
- Induction
- Geometry
- Ogden
- Fn
- Ax
- Derivative
- Formulation
- Xx
- Rosen
- Morphology
- Vc
- Infinity
- Equation
- Theory
- Module
- Stein
- Estimation
- Multiple
- Derivation
- Bb
- Alternative
- Assumption
- Compendium
- Statement
- Kuhn
- Sequence
- Coefficient
- Shapiro
- Isolation
- Lambda
- Degenerate
- Dictionary
- Recourse
- Cone
- Conjecture
- Function
- Hypothesis
- Fol
- Entropy
- Notation
- Sum
- Palais
- Levi
- Bound
- Variable
- Space
- Lim
- Feasibility
- Tensor
- Dimension
- Sheath
- Terminology
- Contradiction
- Jensen
- Radius
- Di
- If
- Schwartz
- Programming
- Formula
Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
LEMMA, noun. (mathematics) A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition.
LEMMA, noun. (linguistics) (usually) The canonical form of an inflected word; i.e., the form usually found in dictionaries.
LEMMA, noun. (linguistics) (less frequently) A lexeme; all the inflected forms of a term.
LEMMA, noun. (botany) One of the specialized bracts around the floret in grasses.
Dictionary definition
LEMMA, noun. A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.
LEMMA, noun. The lower and stouter of the two glumes immediately enclosing the floret in most Gramineae.
LEMMA, noun. The heading that indicates the subject of an annotation or a literary composition or a dictionary entry.
Wise words
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -
in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us
to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions
all of a color.