lemma

  1. Noun.  (mathematics) A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition.
  2. Noun.  (linguistics, usually) The canonical form of an inflected word; usually, for verbs: the infinitive or the present tense, first person singular; and for nouns: the nominative singular.
  3. Noun.  (linguistics, less frequently) A lexeme; all the inflected forms of a term.

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