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lex⋅eme

  [lek-seem]
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–noun Linguistics.
a lexical unit in a language, as a word or base; vocabulary item.
Origin:
1935–40; lex(ical) or lex(icon) + -eme
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lex·eme   (lěk'sēm')   
n.  The fundamental unit of the lexicon of a language. Find, finds, found, and finding are forms of the English lexeme find.

[lex(icon) + -eme.]
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lexeme grammar
A minimal lexical unit of a language. Lexical analysis converts strings in a language into a list of lexemes. For a programming language these word-like pieces would include keywords, identifiers, literals and punctutation. The lexemes are then passed to the parser for syntactic analysis.
(1996-04-06)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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