lemma
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A false lemma is a false premise, or step in the reasoning process.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
Yoneda began explaining the lemma on the platform and continued it on the train before it departed the station.
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
Man can understand these high matters only by ceasing to be man, just as a fly can understand a lemma of Newton only by ceasing to be a fly.
From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
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
Typically native speakers know 15,000 to 20,000 word families - or lemmas - in their first language.
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
The number of flowers in a spikelet is therefore normally equal to the number of lemmas.
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)
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
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
