plural of lemma

(botany) The outer shell of a fruit or similar body. / (botany) One of the specialized bracts around the floret in grasses.

(mathematics) A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition.

(rare) A female given name

plural of non-lemma

plural of pumping lemma

(mathematics) A combinatorial analog of the Brouwer fixed-point theorem, stating that every Sperner coloring of a triangulation of an n-dimensional simplex contains a cell colored with a complete set of colors.

(lexicography, rare) Any form of a lexeme that is not its lemma.

(singular only, mathematics) A particular lemma that claims the existence of a particular isomorphism in a commutative diagram given certain other homomorphisms in the diagram.

(computer science) A lemma which states that for a language to be a member of a language class any sufficiently long string in the language contains a section that can be removed or repeated any number of times with the resulting string remaining in the language, used to determine if a particular language is in a given language class (e.g. not regular).