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Language and linguistics

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Lemma (morphology) In morphology and lexicography, a lemma (plural ''lemmas'' or ''lemmata'') is the canonical form, dictionary form, or citation form of a set of word forms. In English, for example, ''break'', ''breaks'', ''broke'', ''broken'' and ''breaking'' a ...
, the canonical, dictionary or citation form of a word *
Lemma (psycholinguistics) In psycholinguistics, a lemma (plural ''lemmas'' or ''lemmata'') is an abstract conceptual form of a word that has been mentally selected for utterance in the early stages of speech production. A lemma represents a specific meaning but does not ...
, a mental abstraction of a word about to be uttered


Science and mathematics

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Lemma (botany) A spikelet, in botany, describes the typical arrangement of the flowers of grasses, sedges and some other Monocots. Each spikelet has one or more florets. The spikelets are further grouped into panicles or spikes. The part of the spikelet that ...
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Lemma (mathematics) In mathematics, informal logic and argument mapping, a lemma (plural lemmas or lemmata) is a generally minor, proven proposition which is used as a stepping stone to a larger result. For that reason, it is also known as a "helping theorem" or an ...
, a type of proposition


Other uses

* ''Lemma'' (album), by John Zorn (2013) *
Lemma (logic) In mathematics, informal logic and argument mapping, a lemma (plural lemmas or lemmata) is a generally minor, proven proposition which is used as a stepping stone to a larger result. For that reason, it is also known as a "helping theorem" or an ...
, an informal contention


See also

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Analemma In astronomy, an analemma (; ) is a diagram showing the position of the Sun in the sky as seen from a fixed location on Earth at the same mean solar time, as that position varies over the course of a year. The diagram will resemble a figure ei ...
, a diagram showing the variation of the position of the Sun in the sky *
Dilemma A dilemma ( grc-gre, δίλημμα "double proposition") is a problem offering two possibilities, neither of which is unambiguously acceptable or preferable. The possibilities are termed the ''horns'' of the dilemma, a clichéd usage, but disti ...
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Lema (disambiguation) Lema may refer to: Nature Amphibians * Lema tree frog, ''Hypsiboas lemai'', a species of frog *''Centrolene lema'', a synonym for '' Vitreorana gorzulae'', the Bolivar giant glass frog Insects *'' Kedestes lema'', the Lema ranger, a butterfly * ...
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Lemmatisation Lemmatisation ( or lemmatization) in linguistics is the process of grouping together the inflected forms of a word so they can be analysed as a single item, identified by the word's lemma, or dictionary form. In computational linguistics, lemma ...
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Neurolemma Neurilemma (also known as neurolemma, sheath of Schwann, or Schwann's sheath) is the outermost nucleated cytoplasmic layer of Schwann cells (also called neurilemmocytes) that surrounds the axon of the neuron. It forms the outermost layer of the ne ...
, part of a neuron {{Disambiguation