lemma

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Showing that they do was the first part of proving the lemma, however.

From Scientific American • Sep. 12, 2023

A false lemma is a false premise, or step in the reasoning process.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

The consequence of this lemma is that any object in any category is entirely determined by its relation to the other objects in the category as encoded by the transformations to or from this object.

From Scientific American • Sep. 14, 2021

Mohamed Omar told us how to count symmetries using a clever lemma.

From Scientific American • Feb. 16, 2019

When no manuscripts are specified for the lemma in an entry, the lemma is the reading for those manuscripts not otherwise specified.

From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear