Lexical may refer to:
Linguistics
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Lexical corpus or lexis, a complete set of all words in a language
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Lexical item, a basic unit of lexicographical classification
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Lexicon
A lexicon is the vocabulary of a language or branch of knowledge (such as nautical or medical). In linguistics, a lexicon is a language's inventory of lexemes. The word ''lexicon'' derives from Koine Greek language, Greek word (), neuter of () ...
, the vocabulary of a person, language, or branch of knowledge
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Lexical (semiotics) or content word, words referring to ''things'', as opposed to having only grammatical meaning
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Lexical verb, a member of an open class of verbs that includes all verbs except auxiliary verbs
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Lexical aspect, a characteristic of the meaning of verbs
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Lexical form, the canonical form of a word, under which it appears in dictionaries
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Lexical definition or dictionary definition, the meaning of a term in common usage
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Lexical semantics, a subfield of linguistic semantics that studies how and what the words of a language denote
Computing
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Lexical analysis, the process of converting a sequence of characters into a sequence of tokens
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Lexical Markup Framework, the ISO standard for natural language processing and machine-readable dictionary lexicons
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Lexical scope, a scope in computer programming
Other uses
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Lexical approach, a method of teaching foreign languages
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Lexical hypothesis, a widely used theory in personality psychology
See also
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Lexeme
A lexeme () is a unit of lexical meaning that underlies a set of words that are related through inflection. It is a basic abstract unit of meaning, a unit of morphological analysis in linguistics that roughly corresponds to a set of forms taken ...
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Lexicon (disambiguation)
The lexicon of a language (or field of study) is its complete vocabulary.
Lexicon may also refer to:
Reference works
* A dictionary
* An encyclopedic dictionary
* A word list
* The ''Suda'', sometimes cited as the ''Suda Lexicon'' or Suidias's '' ...
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