(linguistics) A branch of linguistics studying the meaning of words. / The study of the relationship between words and their meanings.

Pertaining to or resembling semantics

The quality of a linguistic system has being able to convey meanings / The condition of being semantic

Conversion to semantic form

Of or relating to semantics or the meanings of words. / (software design, of code) Reflecting intended structure and meaning.

(linguistics) In such writing systems as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a phono-semantic character that provides an indication of its meaning; contrasted with phonetic.

In the manner of or referring to semantics.

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

(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.

(computer science) An approach to formalizing the meanings of programming languages by constructing mathematical objects called denotations which describe the meanings of expressions from the languages.