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Record 1 1992-04-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Language (General)
DEF

The part-whole relationship

OBS

Cf. John Sowa "Conceptual Structures : Information Processing in Mind and Machine, 1984.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Linguistique (Généralités)
OBS

mér(o)-, méri-, -mère, -mérie, -méris: du gr. "meros" - partie. Entrent dans la composition de nombreux mots comme préfixe ou comme suffixe: mérospermie, méristème, isomère, polymère.

OBS

Comparer à homonymie, synonymie, néologie, antonymie, etc. Désigne en sémantique lexicale, la relation partie-tout. Une classification basée sur cette relation est aussi appelée "classification mérologique".

Spanish

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