SEMANTIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does semantic mean? 

• SEMANTIC (adjective)
  The adjective SEMANTIC has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to meaning or the study of meaning

  Familiarity information: SEMANTIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEMANTIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to meaning or the study of meaning

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

semantic analysis

Pertainym:

semantics (the study of language meaning)

Derivation:

semantics (the study of language meaning)

 Context examples 

Much prior memory research has focused on semantic memory—remembering facts, such as famous people and landmarks.

(Storing memories of recent events, NIH)

NOTE(S): The term "protocol" is somewhat overloaded and must be qualified to provide semantic context.

(Clinical Study Protocol, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

The underlying services oriented architecture that supports caBIG. caGrid defines two types of grid services that can be registered as nodes on the grid: Data Services and Analytical Services. caGrid provides a standard infrastructure for bioinformaticians to advertise their services thru common metadata defined in Unified Modeling Language (UML) domain information model. caGrid infrastructure also provides strong semantic specification thru binding to description logic terminology concepts that can be used by users to discover new and interesting scientific information using semantically aware searches.

(caGrid, NCI Thesaurus)

If the items had been presented many times, the results might simply highlight neurons that respond to long-established semantic memories, rather than to words recently studied.

(Storing memories of recent events, NIH)