lemma

5 letters in word "lemma": A E L M M.

No anagrams for lemma found in this word list.

Words found within lemma:

ae al ale alme am ea el elm em emma la lam lame lea leam ma mae mal male malm mam me meal mel mela mem mm

• Definitions:
• The lower of two bracts enclosing the flower of a grass.
• the lower of two bracts in a grass floret.
• The lowermost of the two scales forming the floret in a grass spikelet -- the uppermost, less easily seen, is called the palea.
• Dictionary headword. Form of a word listed at the beginning of a dictionary entry. Sometimes the lemma is the root/stem; sometimes not. The lemma for the word "is" is "to be" and it will match "be," "am," "is," "was," "were," "been," etc. ...
• The lower bract enclosing the flower of grass. See drawing of parts of a grass plant.
• A theorem proven only for use in the proof of more important theorems
• lower of two bracts enclosing the flower, sometimes called flowering glume, of diverse shapes, division, and ornamentation.
• An odd-veined bract, the lowermost of the floret which is attached to the rachilla where it delimits the floret.
• A Boolean expression inferred (ie, learned) during the search. SBSAT learns lemmas by analyzing why some branch of the search tree failed to find a solution. SBSAT's lemmas are clauses. ...
• a statement that forms part of the proof of a larger theorem. Of course, the distinction between theorems and lemmas is rather arbitrary, since one mathematician's major result is another's minor claim. Gauss's Lemma[? ...
• The inner petal of a cereal flower, part of the corolla.
• One of the two bracts (lemma and palea) subtending the individual flowers in grass spikelets; may be awned.
• the larger, outer, bract which, along with the palea, serves to contain the floret(s) held within. The lemma and palea provide a protective covering for the developing floret as well as for the seed after ripening.
• a subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition the lower and stouter of the two glumes immediately enclosing the floret in most Gramineae the heading that indicates the subject of an annotation or a literary composition or a dictionary entry
• In informal logic and argument mapping, a lemma is simultaneously a contention for premises below it and a premise for a contention above it.
• In mathematics, a lemma is a proven proposition which is used as a stepping stone to a larger result rather than an independent statement, in and of itself. ...
• In linguistics a lemma is a form of a word, although its usage depends on the area of linguistics in which it is used.

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