Lemma

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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," he [Dr. John Conway] said. "I remember my wife and I spending one entire afternoon just working on some tiny little lemmas involved in the proof."”

2. isim A proposition originally used for such a purpose, but having later acquired a greater, independent, importance; a fundamental (often pithy) and widely-used result.
3. isim 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.

   “Cat is a lemma, but cats is not.”

4. isim 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.
5. isim The outer shell of a fruit or similar body.
6. isim One of the specialized bracts around the floret in grasses.
7. özel isim A female given name.