The condition of being lexical. / The degree to which something is lexical.

Synonym of lexical

The meaning of a word in actual usage by speakers of a certain language.

(programming) Having the scope of an identifier limited to the block of source code text that respectively declares or defines the identifier as a variable or function.

(programming) The property of being lexically scoped.

(linguistics) The study of how the words of a language denote either things in the real world or concepts.

plural of lexical analyzer

(computing) A computer program that performs lexical analysis.

(linguistics) A linguistic category of words (or more precisely lexical items), generally defined by the syntactic or morphological behaviour of the lexical item in question, such as noun or verb.

(linguistics) A set of cognate words or morphemes in two or more related languages, where regular sound correspondences occur between the phonemes contained in the words.