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'''Lexical''' may refer to:
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==Linguistics==
* [[Lexical corpus]] or lexis, a complete set of all words in a language
* [[Lexical item]], a basic unit of lexicographical classification
* [[Lexicon]], the vocabulary of a person, language, or branch of knowledge
* [[Lexical (semiotics)]] or content word, words referring to ''things'', as opposed to having only grammatical meaning
** [[Lexical verb]], a member of an open class of verbs that includes all verbs except auxiliary verbs
* [[Lexical aspect]], a characteristic of the meaning of verbs
* [[Lexical form]], the canonical form of a word, under which it appears in dictionaries
* [[Lexical definition]] or dictionary definition, the meaning of a term in common usage
* [[Lexical semantics]], a subfield of linguistic semantics that studies how and what the words of a language denote

==Computing==
* [[Lexical analysis]], the process of converting a sequence of characters into a sequence of tokens
* [[Lexical Markup Framework]], the ISO standard for natural language processing and machine-readable dictionary lexicons
* [[Lexical scope]], a scope in computer programming

==Other uses==
* [[Lexical approach]], a method of teaching foreign languages
* [[Lexical hypothesis]], a widely used theory in personality psychology

==See also==
* [[Lexeme]]
* [[Lexicon (disambiguation)]]
* {{Lookfrom}}

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