SEMANTICS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does semantics mean? 

• SEMANTICS (noun)
  The noun SEMANTICS has 2 senses:

1. the study of language meaning

2. the meaning of a word, phrase, sentence, or text

  Familiarity information: SEMANTICS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEMANTICS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The study of language meaning

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("semantics" is a kind of...):

linguistics (the scientific study of language)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "semantics"):

deixis (the function of pointing or specifying from the perspective of a participant in an act of speech or writing; aspects of a communication whose interpretation depends on knowledge of the context in which the communication occurs)

formal semantics (the branch of semantics that studies the logical aspects of meaning)

lexical semantics (the branch of semantics that studies the meanings and relations of words)

cognitive semantics; conceptual semantics; semasiology (the branch of semantics that studies the cognitive aspects of meaning)

Derivation:

semantic (of or relating to meaning or the study of meaning)

semanticist (a specialist in the study of meaning)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The meaning of a word, phrase, sentence, or text

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

a petty argument about semantics

Hypernyms ("semantics" is a kind of...):

meaning; substance (the idea that is intended)

 Context examples 

The Common sub-domain represents the semantics that are common to all (or most) of the other sub-domains, for example, it includes semantics for such things as people, organizations, places and materials.

(Common Sub-Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

Specifies the meaning (or semantics) of the relationship between one document version and another.

(Document Version Relationship, NCI Thesaurus)

A terminology concept modeled in a structured and formally well-understood way using logic-based semantics which can be given by a translation into first-order predicate logic.

(Description Logic Concept, NCI Thesaurus)

An automated procedure that uses a specialized set of concept descriptors for conversion of the target concept descriptors into executable elements of other code systems with the equivalent semantics.

(Code Translation, NCI Thesaurus)

A standard that specifies the nomenclature and shared semantics for a collection of data types commonly occurring in programming languages and software interfaces.

(ISO 11404, NCI Thesaurus)

An international standard that provides a set of data type definitions for representing and exchanging basic concepts that are commonly encountered in healthcare environments in support of information exchange in the healthcare environment and establishes the semantics and representations for their use.

(ISO 21090, NCI Thesaurus)

However this too represented multiple distinct aspects of the semantics of study protocol, each of which have now been split into separate classes:- The StudyProtocol class represents the content of the study protocol and can exist even before the information is put into document form. - The details of the structured plan for the study protocol are represented by the StudyProtocolVersion, so named because any aspect of the definition can change from version to version.

(Clinical Study Protocol, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)