Lexical may refer to:

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)