Lexical may refer to:

Linguistics

Lexical corpus In linguistics, the term lexis (from 'word') designates the complete set of all possible words in a language, or a particular subset of words that are grouped by some specific linguistic criteria. For example, the general term ''English lexi ...

or lexis, a complete set of all words in a language *

Lexical item In lexicography, a lexical item is a single word, a part of a word, or a chain of words (catena (linguistics), catena) that forms the basic elements of a language's lexicon (≈ vocabulary). Examples are ''cat'', ''traffic light'', ''take ca ...

, a basic unit of lexicographical classification *

Lexicon A lexicon (plural: lexicons, rarely lexica) 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 Greek word () ...

, the vocabulary of a person, language, or branch of knowledge *

Lexical (semiotics) Content words, in linguistics, are words that possess semantic content and contribute to the meaning of the sentence in which they occur. In a traditional approach, nouns were said to name objects and other entities, lexical verbs to indicate acti ...

or content word, words referring to ''things'', as opposed to having only grammatical meaning **

Lexical verb In linguistics a lexical verb or main verb is a member of an open class of verbs that includes all verbs except auxiliary verbs. Lexical verbs typically express action, state, or other predicate meaning. In contrast, auxiliary verbs express gram ...

, a member of an open class of verbs that includes all verbs except auxiliary verbs *

Lexical aspect In linguistics, the lexical aspect, situation type or Aktionsart (, plural ''Aktionsarten'' ) of an event is part of the way in which that event is structured in relation to time. For example, the English verbs ''arrive'' and ''run'' differ in ...

, a characteristic of the meaning of verbs *

Lexical form In morphology and lexicography, a lemma (: lemmas or lemmata) is the canonical form, dictionary form, or citation form of a set of word forms. In English, for example, ''break'', ''breaks'', ''broke'', ''broken'' and ''breaking'' are forms of the ...

, the canonical form of a word, under which it appears in dictionaries *

Lexical definition The lexical definition of a term, also known as the dictionary definition, is the definition closely matching the meaning of the term in common usage. As its other name implies, this is the sort of definition one is likely to find in the dictiona ...

or dictionary definition, the meaning of a term in common usage *

Lexical semantics Lexical semantics (also known as lexicosemantics), as a subfield of linguistics, linguistic semantics, is the study of word meanings.Pustejovsky, J. (2005) Lexical Semantics: Overview' in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, second edition, V ...

, a subfield of linguistic semantics that studies how and what the words of a language denote

Computing

Lexical analysis Lexical tokenization is conversion of a text into (semantically or syntactically) meaningful ''lexical tokens'' belonging to categories defined by a "lexer" program. In case of a natural language, those categories include nouns, verbs, adjectives ...

, the process of converting a sequence of characters into a sequence of tokens *

Lexical Markup Framework Language resource management – Lexical markup framework (LMF; ISO 24613), produced by ISO/TC 37, is the ISO standard for natural language processing (NLP) and machine-readable dictionary (MRD) lexicons. The scope is standardization of principles ...

, the ISO standard for natural language processing and machine-readable dictionary lexicons *

Lexical scope In computer programming, the scope of a name binding (an association of a name to an entity, such as a variable) is the part of a program where the name binding is valid; that is, where the name can be used to refer to the entity. In other parts ...

, a scope in computer programming

Other uses

Lexical approach The lexical approach refers to various methods of language education, teaching foreign languages with focus on lexical units of various sizes. On the smaller end, the lexical approach refers to teaching practices where vocabulary learning sets the ...

, a method of teaching foreign languages * Lexical hypothesis, a widely used theory in personality psychology

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