Definition of lemma. Meaning of lemma. Synonyms of lemma

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Definition of lemma

Lemma
Lemma Lem"ma (l[e^]m"m[.a]), n.; pl. L. Lemmata (-m[.a]*t[.a]), E. Lemmas (-m[.a]z). [L. lemma, Gr. lh^mma anything received, an assumption or premise taken for granted, fr. lamba`nein to take, assume. Cf. Syllable.] A preliminary or auxiliary proposition demonstrated or accepted for immediate use in the demonstration of some other proposition, as in mathematics or logic.

Meaning of lemma from wikipedia

- Look up Lemma or lemma in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lemma (from Ancient Gr**** λῆμμα premise, ****umption, from Gr**** λαμβάνω I take, I get) may refer...
- Sisay Lemma Kasaye (born 12 December 1990) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. Sisay Lemma began his running career at 17 and initially competed barefoot...
- Gauss's lemma can mean any of several mathematical lemmas named after Carl Friedrich Gauss: Gauss's lemma (polynomials), the greatest common divisor of...
- Zorn's lemma, also known as the Kuratowski–Zorn lemma, is a proposition of set theory. It states that a partially ordered set containing upper bounds for...
- In morphology and lexicography, a lemma (pl.: lemmas or lemmata) is the canonical form, dictionary form, or citation form of a set of word forms. In English...
- abelian category theory, the five lemma is an important and widely used lemma about commutative diagrams. The five lemma is not only valid for abelian categories...
- lemma Fatou's lemma Gauss's lemma (any of several named after Carl Friedrich Gauss) Greendlinger's lemma Itô's lemma Jordan's lemma Nakayama's lemma Poincaré's...
- In the theory of formal languages, the pumping lemma may refer to: Pumping lemma for regular languages, the fact that all sufficiently long strings in...
- In the theory of formal languages, the pumping lemma for regular languages is a lemma that describes an essential property of all regular languages. Informally...
- In mathematics, Itô's lemma or Itô's formula (also called the Itô–Doeblin formula, especially in the French literature) is an identity used in Itô calculus...