Usually means: Premise or proposition supporting conclusion.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word lemma:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. lemma: Merriam-Webster
  2. lemma, lemma: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lemma, lemma: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lemma: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lemma: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lemma, lemma: Wordnik
  7. Lemma, lemma: Wiktionary
  8. lemma: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. lemma: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. lemma: Dictionary.com
  11. Lemma (album), Lemma (botany), Lemma (disambiguation), Lemma (logic), Lemma (mathematics), Lemma (morphology), Lemma (psycholinguistics), Lemma: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Lemma: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. lemma: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. lemma: Rhymezone
  15. Lemma, lemma (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. lemma: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. lemma: FreeDictionary.org
  18. lemma: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. lemma: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. lemma: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. lemma: Global Glossary
  2. lemma-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lemma: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. lemma: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. -lemma: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. LEMMA: Acronym Finder
  2. lemma: A Word A Day

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lemma: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  4. lemma: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  5. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lemma: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (mathematics) A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition.
noun:  (in phrases, by extension) A proposition originally used for such a purpose, but having later acquired a greater, independent, importance; a fundamental (often pithy) and widely-used result.
noun:  (linguistics, lexicography) The canonical form of an inflected word; i.e., the form usually found as the headword in a dictionary, such as the nominative singular of a noun, the bare infinitive of a verb, etc.
noun:  (psycholinguistics) The theoretical abstract conceptual form of a word, representing a specific meaning, before the creation of a specific phonological form as the sounds of a lexeme, which may find representation in a specific written form as a dictionary or lexicographic word.
noun:  (botany) The outer shell of a fruit or similar body.
noun:  (botany) One of the specialized bracts around the floret in grasses.
noun:  (rare) A female given name.

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