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  2. Lexicography - Wikipedia

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    Lexicography is the study of lexicons and the art of compiling dictionaries. [1] It is divided into two separate academic disciplines: . Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries.

  3. Lexicon - Wikipedia

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    The word lexicon derives from Greek word λεξικόν (lexikon), neuter of λεξικός (lexikos) meaning 'of or for words'. [ 1 ] Linguistic theories generally regard human languages as consisting of two parts: a lexicon, essentially a catalogue of a language's words (its wordstock); and a grammar , a system of rules which allow for the ...

  4. Lexicographic order - Wikipedia

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    The words in a lexicon (the set of words used in some language) have a conventional ordering, used in dictionaries and encyclopedias, that depends on the underlying ordering of the alphabet of symbols used to build the words. The lexicographical order is one way of formalizing word order given the order of the underlying symbols.

  5. Lexicology - Wikipedia

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    Lexicology is the branch of linguistics that analyzes the lexicon of a specific language.A word is the smallest meaningful unit of a language that can stand on its own, and is made up of small components called morphemes and even smaller elements known as phonemes, or distinguishing sounds.

  6. Leximin order - Wikipedia

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    Similarly, (4,2,4) is lexicographically larger than (2,4,4). The following algorithm can be used to compute whether x is leximin-larger than y: Let x' be a vector containing the same elements of x but in ascending order; Let y' be a vector containing the same elements of y but in ascending order; Return "true" iff x' is lexicographically-larger ...

  7. Longest word in English - Wikipedia

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    The word teetertotter (used in North American English) is longer at 12 letters, although it is usually spelled with a hyphen. The longest using only the middle row is shakalshas (10 letters). Nine-letter words include flagfalls; eight-letter words include galahads and alfalfas. Since the bottom row contains no vowels, no standard words can be ...

  8. Lyndon word - Wikipedia

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    S[k] is less than S[m]: if we append S[m] to the current collected symbols, we'll get a Lyndon word. But we can't add it to the result list yet because it may be just a part of a larger Lyndon word. Thus, just increment m and set k to 0 so the next symbol would be compared to the first one in the string.

  9. Syntactic category - Wikipedia

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    For instance, many nouns in English denote concrete entities, they are pluralized with the suffix -s, and they occur as subjects and objects in clauses. Many verbs denote actions or states, they are conjugated with agreement suffixes (e.g. -s of the third person singular in English), and in English they tend to show up in medial positions of ...