Lemma
English Meaning
A preliminary or auxiliary proposition demonstrated or accepted for immediate use in the demonstration of some other proposition, as in mathematics or logic.
- A subsidiary proposition assumed to be valid and used to demonstrate a principal proposition.
- A theme, argument, or subject indicated in a title.
- A word or phrase treated in a glossary or similar listing.
- The outer or lower of the two bracts that enclose the flower in a grass spikelet.