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troponymic

troponymic adjective: of, relating to, or being a troponym.

Adjective

troponymic (not comparable)

  1. Of, relating to, or being a troponym.
    • A method of sense resolution is proposed that is based on WordNet, an on-line lexical database that incorporates semantic relations (synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy, meronymy, causal and troponymic entailment) as labeled pointers between word senses. With WordNet, it is easy to retrieve sets of...1991, George A. Miller, Daniel A. Teibel, “A proposal for lexical disambiguation”, in HLT Proceedings, volumes Human Language Technology: HLT '91: Proceedings of the Workshop on Speech and Natural...
    • Table 1. Semantic relations identified in VerbOcean. Siblings in the WordNet column refers to terms with the same troponymic parent, e.g. swim and fly.2004, Timothy Chklovski, Patrick Pantel, “VerbOcean: mining the web for fine-grained semantic verb relations”, in Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language...
    Synonyms:
    troponymous

Synonyms of troponymic

Origin of troponymic

From troponym + -ic.

Questions about troponymic

What does troponymic mean?
Troponymic means of, relating to, or being a troponym.
What part of speech is troponymic?
Troponymic is an adjective.

Words near troponymic in the dictionary

  1. troponins
  2. troponoid
  3. troponoids
  4. troponomy
  5. troponym
  6. troponymic
  7. troponymically
  8. troponymous
  9. troponyms
  10. troponymy
  11. tropopause

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