noun🔗ShareA unit of lexical meaning, roughly corresponding to the set of inflected forms taken by a single word."The lexemes "run," "ran," and "running" all represent the same basic concept of movement. "languagelinguisticswordChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareAn individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis (see token)."The programming language compiler identifies "if", "else", and "while" as distinct lexemes, crucial for understanding the code's logic. "computinglanguagewordlinguisticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
