lexical definition

lexical definition
The meaning of a word in actual usage by speakers of a certain language.

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  • Lexical definition — The lexical definition of a term, also known as the dictionary definition, is 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 dictionary. A lexical definition is… …   Wikipedia

  • Definition — For other uses, see Definition (disambiguation). A definition is a passage that explains the meaning of a term (a word, phrase or other set of symbols), or a type of thing. The term to be defined is the definiendum. A term may have many different …   Wikipedia

  • definition — definitional, adj. definitionally, adv. /def euh nish euhn/, n. 1. the act of defining or making definite, distinct, or clear. 2. the formal statement of the meaning or significance of a word, phrase, etc. 3. the condition of being definite,… …   Universalium

  • Définition d'une planète — Définition des planètes Article principal : Planète. Photographie de la planète Neptune (en grand) et de sa lune Triton (en petit), prise par Voyager 2 lors de son entrée dans le Système solaire extérieur. Depuis sa création afin de décrire… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Définition d'une planète (2006) — Définition des planètes Article principal : Planète. Photographie de la planète Neptune (en grand) et de sa lune Triton (en petit), prise par Voyager 2 lors de son entrée dans le Système solaire extérieur. Depuis sa création afin de décrire… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Lexical similarity — In linguistics, lexical similarity is a measure of the degree to which the word sets of two given languages are similar. A lexical similarity of 1 (or 100%) would mean a total overlap between vocabularies, whereas 0 means there are no common… …   Wikipedia

  • Lexical diffusion — In historical linguistics, lexical diffusion is both a phenomenon and a theory. The phenomenon is that by which a phoneme is modified in a subset of the lexicon, and spreads gradually to other lexical items. For example, in English, /uː/ has… …   Wikipedia

  • Lexical density — In computational linguistics, lexical density constitutes the estimated measure of content per functional (grammatical) and lexical units (lexemes) in total. Specifically, this is a coefficient of the word type to token ratio of a text. The main… …   Wikipedia

  • Definition of planet — Photograph of the crescent planet Neptune (top) and its moon Triton (center) …   Wikipedia

  • Définition des planètes — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Définition (Homonymie). Article principal : Planète. Photographie de la planète Neptune (en gran …   Wikipédia en Français

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