Lexical

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Lexical describes something concerning words or vocabulary.

Lexical may also refer to:

Linguistics

• Lexical (semiotics), words referring to things, as opposed to having only grammatical meaning
  • Lexical verb, a member of an open class of verbs that includes all verbs except auxiliary verbs
• Lexical definition or dictionary definition, the meaning of a term in common usage
• Lexical form, the canonical form of a word, under which it appears in dictionaries
• Lexical semantics, a subfield of linguistic semantics that studies how and what the words of a language denote

Computing

• Lexical analysis, the process of converting a sequence of characters into a sequence of tokens
• Lexical Markup Framework, the ISO standard for natural language processing and machine-readable dictionary lexicons
• Lexical scope, a scope in computer programming

Other uses

• Lexical approach, a method of teaching foreign languages
• Lexical hypothesis, a widely used theory in personality psychology

See also

• Lexicon, a language's inventory of lexemes
• Lexicon (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "Lexical"

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