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lemma

[lem-uh] / ˈlɛm ə /




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In Schwartz’s solution to the Halpern-Weaver conjecture, the T-pattern lemma is a critical component.

From Scientific American Sep. 12, 2023

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

From Textbooks Jun. 15, 2022

Dr. Tanton chose Sperner’s lemma, which is related to the Brouwer fixed-point theorem that both Francis Su and Holly Krieger talked about on their episodes of the podcast.

From Scientific American Sep. 29, 2018

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

From Scientific American Sep. 29, 2018

The glumes at least half as long as the lemma Wood-grass, Muhlenbergia mexicana. 23a.

From The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Gleason, Henry Allan

As a result, mathematicians tended to keep their discoveries to themselves, deploying their theorems, corollaries and lemmas only to win intellectual battles.

From Scientific American Apr. 24, 2023

The allusions to darkness blend in with lemmas about well-being and are celebrated in that indistinguishably supportive you-go-girl argot.

From Slate Sep. 18, 2020

If you learn only 800 of the most frequently-used lemmas in English, you'll be able to understand 75% of the language as it is spoken in normal life.

From BBC Jun. 23, 2018

Unfortunately, mathematicians have done a good job of smothering the beauty beneath formal definitions, theorems, lemmas, and corollaries that dot every ‘i’ but never tell you what they’re spelling out.

From Scientific American Aug. 6, 2012

Axis of the spikelet beset with conspicuous long hairs about equaling the lemmas; tall marsh grass 1-4 m. high Reed, Phragmites communis. 30b.

From The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Gleason, Henry Allan

If they enclose Latin words, they indicate the lemmata of Anglo-Saxon words in glosses or glossaries etc., or the Latin equivalent of such words in the Latin texts from which they are translated.

From A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by Hall, J. R. Clark (John R. Clark)

A fourth arrangement collected the glosses according to the first two letters of the lemmata, as in the Corpus Glossary and in the still earlier Cod.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various

The third operation collected all the accessible glosses in alphabetical order, in the first instance according to the first letters of the lemmata.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various




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