noun. In logic:

noun. In the Stoical logic

noun. The major premise of a hypothetical syllogism, or modus ponens: thus, in the reasoning, “If it is day, it is light; but it is day: hence, it is light,” the first premise was called the lemma.

noun. A premise in general.

noun. A Megaric sophism depending on the question whether a man who says “I am lying” is truly lying or not.

noun. In mathematics, a proposition upon which it is necessary to arrest the attention for the sake of proving an ulterior one, but which interrupts the regular series of theorems; also, a premise drawn from another branch of mathematics than that under consideration.

noun. A theme; a thesis; the subject of an epigram, or of a musical composition, etc.

noun. In embryology, the primary or outer layer of the germinal vesicle. Pascoe.

noun. A preliminary or auxiliary proposition demonstrated or accepted for immediate use in the demonstration of some other proposition, as in mathematics or logic.

noun. A word that is included in a glossary or list of headwords; a headword.

noun. A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition.

noun. The canonical form of an inflected word.

noun. A lexeme; all the inflected forms of a term.

noun. One of the specialized bracts around the floret in grasses.

noun. the lower and stouter of the two glumes immediately enclosing the floret in most Gramineae

noun. a subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition

noun. the heading that indicates the subject of an annotation or a literary composition or a dictionary entry

"Obviously, such a number would be far too large to manipulate readily, so, using a formula familiar to statisticians, it was normalized to produce a simple decimal number of only a few digits which I called the lemma's Exposure Index."

basic form  canonical form  citation form  dictionary form  headword  

dilemma  sublemma  tetralemma  trilemma  

glume  head  header  heading  proposition  

Emma  Gemma  dilemma  emma  gemma  

8  disutility  electro-magnetism  gingiva  kck  

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