Definition of Lemma. Meaning of Lemma. Synonyms of Lemma

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Definition of Lemma

Lemma
Lemma Lem"ma (l[e^]m"m[.a]), n.; pl. L. Lemmata (-m[.a]*t[.a]), E. Lemmas (-m[.a]z). [L. lemma, Gr. lh^mma anything received, an assumption or premise taken for granted, fr. lamba`nein to take, assume. Cf. Syllable.] A preliminary or auxiliary proposition demonstrated or accepted for immediate use in the demonstration of some other proposition, as in mathematics or logic.

Meaning of Lemma from wikipedia

- Look up Lemma or lemma in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lemma (from Ancient Gr**** λῆμμα premise, ****umption, from Gr**** λαμβάνω I take, I get) may refer...
- Gauss's lemma can mean any of several mathematical lemmas named after Carl Friedrich Gauss: Gauss's lemma (polynomials), the greatest common divisor of...
- Zorn's lemma, also known as the Kuratowski–Zorn lemma, is a proposition of set theory. It states that a partially ordered set containing upper bounds for...
- In probability theory, the Borel–Cantelli lemma is a theorem about sequences of events. In general, it is a result in measure theory. It is named after...
- local lemma Nakayama's lemma Poincaré's lemma Riesz's lemma Schur's lemma Schwarz's lemma Sperner's lemma Urysohn's lemma Vitali covering lemma Yoneda's...
- In morphology and lexicography, a lemma (pl.: lemmas or lemmata) is the canonical form, dictionary form, or citation form of a set of word forms. In English...
- Kőnig's lemma or Kőnig's infinity lemma is a theorem in graph theory due to the Hungarian mathematician Dénes Kőnig who published it in 1927. It gives...
- In topology, Urysohn's lemma is a lemma that states that a topological space is normal if and only if any two disjoint closed subsets can be separated...
- In mathematics, Farkas' lemma is a solvability theorem for a finite system of linear inequalities. It was originally proven by the Hungarian mathematician...
- In mathematics, Itô's lemma or Itô's formula (also called the Itô–Doeblin formula, especially in the French literature) is an identity used in Itô calculus...