(anatomy) Any of three semicircular interconnected tubes located inside each ear: the horizontal (or lateral) semicircular canal, the superior (or anterior) semicircular canal, and the posterior semicircular canal. They form part of the bony labyrinth.

(linguistics) A process of borrowing semantic meaning from another language, where the complete word in the borrowing language already exists; the change is that its meaning is extended to include another meaning its existing translation has in the lending language.

(linguistics) An impairment in comprehending pragmatic aspects of language.

(Internet) A proposed evolution of the World Wide Web whose pages have their subject matter formally encoded into them, without the need to rely on keyword phrases within the content.

plural of semantic network

(physics) An undoped semiconductor. This means that holes in the valence band are vacancies created by electrons that have been thermally excited to the conduction band, as opposed to doped semiconductors where holes or electrons are supplied by a “foreign” atom acting as an impurity.

(linguistics) A proposed major subgroup of ancient Semitic languages, consisting of all Semitic languages not included in the East Semitic subgroup.

(linguistics) A subgroup of the Semitic languages, attested by two distinct languages, Akkadian and Eblaite, both of which have been long extinct.

plural of Semacode

plural of semantic net