lemma

Speech parts

1. lemma - Noun

2. Lemma - Proper noun

Meaning

A preliminary or auxiliary proposition demonstrated or accepted for immediate use in the demonstration of some other proposition, as in mathematics or logic.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

theorem proposition headword citation form base form flowering glume foundation position ground basis axiom data condition principle belief
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Antonyms

fact proof mistake tenure abortion ignorance
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Hypernyms

head heading proposition header glume

Phrases with the word

Margulis lemma fundamental lemma Hadamard's lemma Kronecker's lemma

Derivatives

lemmata Lemmas

Anagrams

melam ammel

Examples

A particle moving with a uniform velocity would be denoted by Wallis by the formula s = vt, ...while previous writers would have denoted the same relation by stating what is equivalent to the proposition s1 : s2 = v1t1 : v2t2 (see e.g. Newton's Principia, bk. I. sect. I., lemma 10 or 11). John Wallis

According to his lemma, a group of four manuscripts including Codex Monacensis 1086 are copies directly from the original. Source: Internet

Advanced mathematical proofs like Siegel's lemma build upon this more general concept. Source: Internet

A well-known joke alluding to this equivalency (which may defy human intuition) is attributed to Jerry Bona : "The Axiom of Choice is obviously true, the well-ordering principle obviously false, and who can tell about Zorn's lemma?" citation. Source: Internet

A related result, sometimes called the second Borel–Cantelli lemma, is a partial converse of the first Borel–Cantelli lemma. Source: Internet

Both these results can be proved by the tube lemma which is used in the proof that a product of finitely many compact spaces is compact. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Lemler Lemley Lemm lemman lemmata lemmatic