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Lemma
//ˈlɪmə// name, noun
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A female given name. rare
Noun
- 1 A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition.
""We finally did it, but we found the proof very, very hard," [Dr. Conway] said. "I remember my wife and I spending one entire afternoon just working on some tiny little lemmas involved in the proof.""
- 2 The outer shell of a fruit or similar body.
- 3 the heading that indicates the subject of an annotation or a literary composition or a dictionary entry wordnet
- 4 A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition.; A proposition originally used for such a purpose, but having later acquired a greater, independent, importance; a fundamental (often pithy) and widely-used result. broadly
- 5 One of the specialized bracts around the floret in grasses.
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- 6 a subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition wordnet
- 7 The canonical form of an inflected word; i.e., the form usually found as the headword in a dictionary, such as the nominative singular of a noun, the bare infinitive of a verb, etc.
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- 8 the lower and stouter of the two glumes immediately enclosing the floret in most Gramineae wordnet
- 9 The theoretical abstract conceptual form of a word, representing a specific meaning, before the creation of a specific phonological form as the sounds of a lexeme, which may find representation in a specific written form as a dictionary or lexicographic word.
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek λῆμμα (lêmma, “premise, assumption”), from the same root as λαμβάνω (lambánō, “I take”).
Etymology 2
From the Ancient Greek λέμμα (lémma), from λέπω (lépō, “I peel”).
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