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Type Words
Synonyms flowering glume
Type of glume
Type Words
Type of proposition
Type Words
Type of head, header, heading

Examples of lemma

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This follows from Zorn's lemma, an equivalent formulation of the axiom of choice.
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Furthermore, the concept of pole and polar is revealed as a lemma in Book VII.
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The European ministers minced no words in blaming the U.S. for their di lemma.
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The process of determining the lemma for a given word is called lemmatisation.
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The convexity properties are consequences of Gauss's lemma and its generalisations.
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The most important among them are Zorn's lemma and the well-ordering theorem.
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Unlike stemming, lemmatisation does select the right lemma depending on the context.
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The existence of a generic filter G follows from the Rasiowa-Sikorski lemma.
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Using this lemma we can now show that the height of the tree is logarithmic.
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More examples
  • A subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition
  • The lower and stouter of the two glumes immediately enclosing the floret in most Gramineae
  • The heading that indicates the subject of an annotation or a literary composition or a dictionary entry
  • Lemma is a phytomorphological term used in botany referring to a part of the spikelet of grasses (Poaceae). It is the lowermost of two chaff-like bracts enclosing the grass floret. ...
  • Farkas' lemma is a result in mathematics stating that a vector is either in a given convex cone or that there exists a (hyper)plane separating the vector from the cone, but not both. It was originally proved by . ...
  • In linguistics a lemma (plural lemmas or lemmata) is either of two things: # Morphology, lexicography: the canonical form, dictionary form, or citation form of a set of words (headword); e.g., in English, run, runs, ran and running are forms of the same lexeme, with run as the lemma. ...
  • In informal logic and argument mapping, a lemma is simultaneously a contention for premises below it and a premise for a contention above it.
  • In mathematics, a "helping theorem" or lemma (plural lemmata or lemmas) is a proven proposition which is used as a stepping stone to a larger result rather than as a statement of interest by itself. The word derives from the Ancient Greek u03BBu1FC6u03BCu03BCu03B1 ("anything which is received, such as a gift, profit, or a bribe")
  • A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition; A lexeme; all the inflected forms of a term