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Assumption for the sake of argument
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lemma
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, first in mathematics, from Greek lemma (plural lemmata ) "something received or taken; an argument; something taken for granted," from root of lambanein "to take" (see analemma ).
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
In morphology and lexicography , a lemma (plural lemmas or lemmata ) is the canonical form , dictionary form , or citation form of a set of words ( headword ). In English , for example, run , runs , ran and running are forms of the same lexeme , with run ...
Usage examples of lemma.
When I reached the complex exposition of the first Danladi Lemma, I mourned the loss of my ship.
For a moment the diamond ideoplasts of the Lemma stood out as clearly as anything I had ever seen.
Squire Crotchet had also one daughter, whom he had christened Lemma, and who, as likely to be endowed with a very ample fortune was, of course, an object very tempting to many young soldiers of fortune, who were marching with the march of mind, in a good condition for taking castles, as far as not having a groat is a qualification for such exploits.
If I numbered the lines of the proof and assign numbers from your number lines to them, by the lemma of your first proof, the proof itself disproves itself, and you get a set with fewer than no members.
He had commanded that the finest inspiration of his Mind should be made manifest, and so for seventy yards up and down the Promenade, the first of the twenty-three lemmas needed to prove the conjecture was captured in hard, flowing columns of diamond meant to last forever.
Tycho had originally called for all twenty-three lemmas to be so arrayed, one after the other for a mile and a half down the Promenade.
His brother, Mycroft, speedily dismantled his proof, and took him to task for failing to complete several lemmas associated with the problem.
Lemma: that our universe can be considered as a collection of locally shrinkable continua each containing at least one non-degenerating element.
It was Barbara Lemmas, a professor of the Seventh Level, one of Technica's local bigwigs.
I am more comfortable with my lemmas out in open pasture than I am with cities.
I tend to lose lemmas into those caves with the animals being lured in by Creatures of Darkness.
Perhaps Joshua encountered situations, di lemmas, complexities on Thanatos Minor which we did not fore see.
Waterhouse works through that stuff and comes up with some nice lemmas which he lamentably cannot send to Alan without violating both common sense and any number of security procedures.