meronymy

meronymy

(mɛrˈɒnɪmɪ) n (Linguistics) the semantic relationship between a meronym, or a part of something, and its whole

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meronymy - the semantic relation that holds between a part and the wholepart to whole relationsemantic relation - a relation between meaningscomponent part, part, portion, component, constituent - something determined in relation to something that includes it; "he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself"; "I read a portion of the manuscript"; "the smaller component is hard to reach"; "the animal constituent of plankton"

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