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Linguistics is the scientific study of language, and involves an analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context.

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In linguistics, a compound is a lexeme (less precisely, a word) that consists of more than one stem. Compounding, composition or nominal composition is the process of word formation that creates ...

Domain: Language; Category: Language learning Collected Term

In linguistics, a word is the smallest element that can be pronounced in isolation with objective or practical meaning. A word may consist of a single morpheme, or several, whereas a morpheme may ...

Domain: Language; Category: Grammar Collected Term

A defining vocabulary is a list of words used by lexicographers to write dictionary definitions. The underlying principle goes back to Samuel Johnson's notion that words should be defined using ...

Domain: Language; Category: Dictionaries Collected Term

An acronym is a word or name formed as an abbreviation from the initial components in a phrase or a word, usually individual letters (as in NATO- North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) and sometimes ...

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