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Lexeme
lexeme
lexeme
English
Noun
lexeme (plural lexemes)
- (linguistics) A unit of lexical meaning, roughly corresponding to the set of inflected forms taken by a single word, so for example the lexeme RUN includes as members "run" (lemma), "running" (inflected form), and "ran", but excludes "runner" (a derived term).
 - (computing) An individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis (see token).
 
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Translations
unit of vocabulary, the different forms of the same lemma
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computing: continuous character sequence without spaces