Lexical may refer to:

Linguistics

Lexical corpus In linguistics, the term lexis (from grc, λέξις / word) designates the complete set of all possible words in a language, or a particular subset of words that are grouped by some specific linguistic criteria. For example, the general term ...

or lexis, a complete set of all words in a language *

Lexical item In lexicography, a lexical item is a single word, a part of a word, or a chain of words ( catena) that forms the basic elements of a language's lexicon (≈ vocabulary). Examples are ''cat'', ''traffic light'', ''take care of'', ''by the way' ...

, a basic unit of lexicographical classification *

Lexicon A lexicon is the vocabulary of a language or branch of knowledge (such as nautical or medical). In linguistics, a lexicon is a language's inventory of lexemes. The word ''lexicon'' derives from Koine Greek language, Greek word (), neuter of () ...

, the vocabulary of a person, language, or branch of knowledge *

Lexical (semiotics) Content words, in linguistics, are words that possess semantic content and contribute to the meaning of the sentence in which they occur. In a traditional approach, nouns were said to name objects and other entities, lexical verbs to indicate actio ...

or content word, words referring to ''things'', as opposed to having only grammatical meaning ** Lexical verb, a member of an open class of verbs that includes all verbs except auxiliary verbs * Lexical aspect, a characteristic of the meaning of verbs *

Lexical form 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 form of a word, under which it appears in dictionaries *

Lexical definition The lexical definition of a term, also known as the dictionary definition, is the definition closely matching the meaning of the term in common usage. As its other name implies, this is the sort of definition one is likely to find in the dictiona ...

or dictionary definition, the meaning of a term in common usage * Lexical semantics, a subfield of linguistic semantics that studies how and what the words of a language denote

Computing

* Lexical analysis, the process of converting a sequence of characters into a sequence of tokens * Lexical Markup Framework, the ISO standard for natural language processing and machine-readable dictionary lexicons * Lexical scope, a scope in computer programming

Other uses

* Lexical approach, a method of teaching foreign languages *

Lexical hypothesis The lexical hypothesis (also known as the fundamental lexical hypothesis, lexical approach, or sedimentation hypothesis) is a thesis, current primarily in early personality psychology, and subsequently subsumed by many later efforts in that subfie ...

, a widely used theory in personality psychology

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Computing

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