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Nov 28, 2009
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se•man•tics



Pronunciation: (si-man'tiks), [key]
—n. (used with a sing. v.)
1. Ling.
a. the study of meaning.
b. the study of linguistic development by classifying and examining changes in meaning and form.
2. Also called significs. the branch of semiotics dealing with the relations between signs and what they denote.
3. the meaning, or an interpretation of the meaning, of a word, sign, sentence, etc.: Let's not argue about semantics.
4. See general semantics.

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