Lexical may refer to:
Linguistics
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Lexical corpus or lexis, a complete set of all words in a language
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Lexical item, a basic unit of lexicographical classification
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Lexicon, the vocabulary of a person, language, or branch of knowledge
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Lexical (semiotics) or content word, words referring to ''things'', as opposed to having only grammatical meaning
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Lexical verb In linguistics a lexical verb or main verb is a member of an open class of verbs that includes all verbs except auxiliary verbs. Lexical verbs typically express action, state, or other predicate meaning. In contrast, auxiliary verbs express gramm ...
, a member of an open class of verbs that includes all verbs except auxiliary verbs
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Lexical aspect
In linguistics, the lexical aspect or Aktionsart (, plural ''Aktionsarten'' ) of a verb is part of the way in which that verb is structured in relation to time. For example, the English verbs ''arrive'' and ''run'' differ in their lexical aspect ...
, a characteristic of the meaning of verbs
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Lexical form, the canonical form of a word, under which it appears in dictionaries
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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
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Lexical semantics
Lexical semantics (also known as lexicosemantics), as a subfield of linguistic semantics, is the study of word meanings.Pustejovsky, J. (2005) Lexical Semantics: Overview' in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, second edition, Volumes 1-14Ta ...
, a subfield of linguistic semantics that studies how and what the words of a language denote
Computing
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Lexical analysis
In computer science, lexical analysis, lexing or tokenization is the process of converting a sequence of characters (such as in a computer program or web page) into a sequence of ''lexical tokens'' ( strings with an assigned and thus identified ...
, the process of converting a sequence of characters into a sequence of tokens
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Lexical Markup Framework
Language resource management - Lexical markup framework (LMF; ISO 24613:2008), is the International Organization for Standardization ISO/TC37 standard for natural language processing (NLP) and machine-readable dictionary (MRD) lexicons.
The scope ...
, the ISO standard for natural language processing and machine-readable dictionary lexicons
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Lexical scope
In computer programming, the scope of a name binding (an association of a name to an entity, such as a variable) is the part of a program where the name binding is valid; that is, where the name can be used to refer to the entity. In other parts ...
, a scope in computer programming
Other uses
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Lexical approach
The lexical approach is a method of teaching foreign languages described by Michael Lewis in the early 1990s. The basic concept on which this approach rests is the idea that an important part of learning a language consists of being able to unders ...
, a method of teaching foreign languages
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Lexical hypothesis, a widely used theory in personality psychology
See also
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Lexeme
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Lexicon (disambiguation)
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