plural of semantic field

(linguistics, translation studies) A group of words which all relate to the same subject or concept, or to overlapping aspects thereof.

A semantic network.

The study of the semantics, or interpretations, of formal languages. / (computer science) the rigorous mathematical study of the meaning of programming languages

plural of semantic analysis

(computational linguistics) The study of estimation of the meanings of words by looking at patterns of words in huge collections of texts, using statistical methods.

(linguistics, computing) Having no semantic content.

(linguistics) A change in one of the meanings of a word over time.

(Internet) A proposed evolution of the World Wide Web whose pages have their subject matter formally encoded into them, without the need to rely on keyword phrases within the content.

(linguistics) A process of borrowing semantic meaning from another language, where the complete word in the borrowing language already exists; the change is that its meaning is extended to include another meaning its existing translation has in the lending language.