Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to meaning, especially meaning in language.
- adjective Of, relating to, or according to the science of semantics.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- pertaining to the meanings of words.
- of or pertaining to semantics.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to
semantics or the meanings of words. - adjective web design, of code Reflecting intended structure and meaning.
- adjective of a detail or distinction
Petty ortrivial ; (of a person or statement)quibbling ,niggling .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to meaning or the study of meaning
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The only difference is, in the modern sentential calculus Ï and Ï are not construed as terms denoting truth-values, but rather as sentences having truth conditions (though, in the semantics of the sentential calculus, sentences are assigned truth-values as their ˜semantic value™, and they are considered true/false according to which truth-value serves as their semantic value).
Gottlob Frege Zalta, Edward N. 2008
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Aristotle, in his time, distinguished between semantic and apophantic propositions, and noted, that if all propositions be _semantic_, not all are _apophantic_.
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909
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The term semantic similarity is misleading as it refers to a type of attributional similarity, yet relational similarity is not any less semantic than attributional similarity.
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The credit money is created by simply moving numbers on a balance sheet, and what I call a semantic fraud against all of us.
Will Bush be the Author of the Greatest Depression Known to Mankind? 2008
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So what we call semantic memory, remembering things by conceptual keys, like who was the first president of the United States.
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So what we call semantic memory, remembering things by conceptual keys, like who was the first president of the United States.
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Other companies have offered what they call semantic search based on the semantic web approach.
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Other companies have offered what they call semantic search based on the semantic web approach.
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Other companies have offered what they call semantic search based on the semantic web approach.
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The qualifier "semantic" is important: semantic programs are composed of encoded information in which symbols stand for and are translated into physical, chemical, and biological objects and processes.
Against Darwinism 2009
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In 2023, he co-authored a paper on what he dubbed “semantic hearing,” or “a novel capability for hearable devices that enables them to, in real-time, focus on, or ignore, specific sounds from real-world environments.”
For People with Misophonia, Everyday Noises Can Be Agony Sloane Crosley 2026
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