Lemma

['lemə]

Definition

(noun.) the heading that indicates the subject of an annotation or a literary composition or a dictionary entry.

(noun.) a subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition.

(noun.) the lower and stouter of the two glumes immediately enclosing the floret in most Gramineae.

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Definition

(n.) A preliminary or auxiliary proposition demonstrated or accepted for immediate use in the demonstration of some other proposition, as in mathematics or logic.

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Definition

n. (math.) a preliminary proposition demonstrated for the purpose of being used in a subsequent proposition: sometimes in logic a premise taken for granted: a theme:—pl. Lemm′as Lemm′ata.

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