Associations to the word «Lemma»

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.

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.