


of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols:
semantic change; semantic confusion.
of or relating to semantics.
of or relating to meaning or arising from distinctions between the meanings of different words or symbols
of or relating to semantics
(logic) concerned with the interpretation of a formal theory, as when truth tables are given as an account of the sentential connectives


Read Also:

  • Semantic-differential

    noun, Psycholinguistics. 1. a technique for measuring the connotative meaning of concepts by having an individual rate each concept on a series of graduated scales, each scale defined by a pair of polar adjectives, as good–bad or strong–weak.

  • Semantic-field

    noun, Linguistics. 1. an area of human experience or perception, as color, that is delimited and subcategorized by a set of interrelated vocabulary items in a language.

  • Semantic gap

    The difference between the complex operations performed by high-level language constructs and the simple ones provided by computer instruction sets. It was in an attempt to try to close this gap that computer architects designed increasingly complex instruction set computers. (1994-10-10)

  • Semanticist

    noun, (used with a singular verb) 1. Linguistics. the study of meaning. the study of linguistic development by classifying and examining changes in meaning and form. 2. Also called significs. the branch of semiotics dealing with the relations between signs and what they denote. 3. the meaning, or an interpretation of the meaning, of a […]
