meronymy

Noun

countable uncountable

(semantics) The relationship of being a constituent part or member of something; a system of meronyms.

Japanese Meaning

（意味論）ある対象がその構成要素としての部分との関係、すなわち全体と部分の関係を示す概念

What is this buttons?

In their semantic analysis, the linguists discussed meronymy as the relation between parts and wholes.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

意味論の分析で、言語学者たちは部分-全体関係を、構成要素と全体の関係として論じた。

Details

Sense（1）

(semantics) The relationship of being a constituent part or member of something; a system of meronyms.

This relationship of meronymy is controversial for various reasons. First, there are several types of meronymy, such as functional meronymy, where one concept is a functional part of another (e.g. FINGER-HAND) or more general part-whole relations, where the part and the whole exist as a continuous entity (e.g. FLAME-FIRE). Secondly, there are diverging opinions as to whether meronymy should be treated as a semantic primitive in the sense of [syn]onymy, antonymy, and hyponymy.

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