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Definition of Semantics

1. Noun. The study of language meaning.

2. Noun. The meaning of a word, phrase, sentence, or text. "A petty argument about semantics"

Definition of Semantics

1. Noun. (linguistics) A branch of linguistics studying the meaning of words. ¹

2. Noun. The study of the relationship between words and their meanings. ¹

3. Noun. The individual meanings of words, as opposed to the overall meaning of a passage. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Semantics

1. [n]

Medical Definition of Semantics

1. The relationships between symbols and their meanings. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Semantics

semantic field semantic information semantic memory semantic net semantic network semantic relation semantic role semantic shift semantical semantically

semantician semanticians semanticist semanticists semanticity semantics (current term) semantics-free semantide semantides semantogram

semantograms semantra semantron semantrons semaphore semaphore plant semaphored semaphores semaphoric semaphorical

Literary usage of Semantics

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1907)
"THE semantics OF MODAL CONSTRUCTIONS BY ... the adoption of hints from the sciences of morphology and semantics, the continued patient devotion of a few to ..."

2. Beating International Terrorism: An Action Strategy for Preemption and by Stephen Sloan (1992)
"The semantics of Counterterrorism: A Quasi-Offensive Posture A lack of semantic clarity in terminology used to provide guidance for measures to combat ..."

3. Partial Evaluation and Automatic Program Generation by Neil D. Jones, Carsten K. Gomard, Peter Sestoft (1993)
"A collection of papers on semantics-directed compiler generation is found ... Mosses constructed a system called 'semantics Implementation System' or 'SIS' ..."

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