A subcategory of declarative memory, semantic memory stores general information such as names and facts. / A system of the brain where logical concepts relating to the outside world are stored.

(linguistics) A graph whose vertices represent concepts and edges represent semantic relations, such as synonymy—having very similar meaning, hyponymy—being a subclass, or meronymy—being a part of a whole.

plural of semantic differentiation

Alternative form of phonosemantic

plural of semantic field

(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.

(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.

plural of semantic network

A phenomenon where the repetition of a word or phrase causes it to temporarily lose all meaning to a reader or listener.

Alternative letter-case form of Semantic Web