lemma

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A false lemma is a false premise, or step in the reasoning process.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

The consequence of this lemma is that any object in any category is entirely determined by its relation to the other objects in the category as encoded by the transformations to or from this object.

From Scientific American • Sep. 14, 2021

Dr. Tanton paired Sperner’s lemma with his Aussie roots in the dessert pavlova.

From Scientific American • Sep. 29, 2018

Once a lemma frequency dictionary was in place for each drug, this information was fed into Wordle to generate the detailed visualizations for each part of speech.

From Scientific American • Nov. 26, 2012

When I place B1 in an entry but do not report B2, it can be assumed that B2 has the lemma as its reading.

From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear