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semantics-free

semantics-free adjective: having no semantic content.

Adjective

semantics-free (comparative more semantics-free, superlative most semantics-free)

  1. Having no semantic content.
    • However, most of DHT systems focus strictly on handling semantics-free, large-granularity requests for objects by identifier (typically a name). They are limited to caching, pre-fetching, or pushing of content at the object level2004, Weixiong Rao with Hui Song and Fanyuan Ma, “Querying XML data over DHT System using XPeer”, in Hai Jin, editor, Grid and cooperative computing: GCC 2004, page 559
    • They all try to demonstrate that language is more than just the assembling of context-free words using semantics-free rules2007, Wolfgang Teubert, Text corpora and multilingual lexicography, page 131
    Synonyms:
    meaningless, s-free

Synonyms of semantics-free

Forms of semantics-free

comparativemore semantics-free
superlativemost semantics-free

Origin of semantics-free

From semantics + -free.

Questions about semantics-free

What does semantics-free mean?
Semantics-free means having no semantic content.
What part of speech is semantics-free?
Semantics-free is an adjective.

Words near semantics-free in the dictionary

  1. semanticize
  2. semanticized
  3. semanticizes
  4. semanticizing
  5. semantics
  6. semantics-free
  7. semantide
  8. semantides
  9. semantisation
  10. semantisations
  11. semantization

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