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Definition of Lemmas
1. lemma [n] - See also: lemma
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lemmas
Literary usage of Lemmas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Greek Mathematics by Thomas Little Heath (1921)
"lemmas to the different treatises. After the description of the treatises forming
the Trea-aury of Analysis come the collections of lemmas given by Pappus ..."
2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"Spikelets unisexual; male and female spikelets OD separate plants. c. lemmas much
shorter than the glumes: cc. lemmas with elongated delicate tips: [erum. ..."
3. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"lemmas con*«x or keeled only at tbe summit. d. Uppermost lemmas shaped like the
lower, fertile or sterile. «. Nerves of lemma prominent, parallel. 73. ..."
4. Newton's Principia, First Book, Sections I., II., III.: With Notes and by Isaac Newton, Percival Frost (1878)
"If in this manner we analyse the statement of lemmas II. and III., the hypothetical
... In the proof of the lemmas, the continual decrease of the ..."
5. The Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, E W Brayley (1818)
"SHOULD the following lemmas and propositions merit a place in your Annals of
Philosophy, your inserting them therein will much oblige Your humble servant, ..."
6. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1855)
"... most private Colleges ; so that we are like to be as solemn and full as at a
Public Act, the lemmas whereof I shall present to you, as soon as printed. ..."
7. Annals of Philosophy, Or, Magazine of Chemistry, Mineralogy, Mechanics by Thomas Thomson (1818)
"lemmas and Propositions. By Mr. J. Adams. (To Dr. Thomson. ... Oct. 9, 1817,
SHOULD the following lemmas and propositions merit a place in your Annals of ..."
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