Defenition of the word lemma

Defenition of the word lemma
- A canonical form of a term, particularly in the context of highly inflected languages.
- Proven mathematical theorem that is primarily used as a tool to prove another theorem.
- the head of an annotation or gloss
- a subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another proposition
- the lower and stouter of the two glumes immediately enclosing the floret in most Gramineae
- the heading that indicates the subject of an annotation or a literary composition or a dictionary entry