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synonym ring

noun

Definitions

  1. Synonym of synset.

    • A synonym ring is a set of words or phrases (which are regarded as synonymous). A thesaurus is a set of trees whose nodes are synonym rings.
    • Each term in a synonym ring is equally likely to occur in any relevant article and so it is necessary to search for them all rather than one preferred term.
    • A synonym ring (see Figure 9-2) connects a set of words that are defined as equivalent for the purposes of retrieval. In practice, these words are often not true synonyms.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for synonym ring. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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