lexeme

noun

The fundamental unit of the lexicon of a language. Find, finds, found, and finding are forms of the English lexeme find.

noun

Roughly, the set of inflected forms taken by a single word, such as the lexeme RUN including as members “run” (lemma), “running” (inflected form), or “ran”, and excluding “runner” (derived term).

noun

an individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis (see token)

noun

a minimal unit (as a word or stem) in the lexicon of a language; `go’ and `went’ and `gone’ and `going’ are all members of the English lexeme `go’