semantic

adjective

se·man·tic si-ˈman-tik

variants or less commonly semantical

si-ˈman-ti-kəl

: of or relating to meaning in language

: of or relating to semantics

semantically

si-ˈman-ti-k(ə-)lē

adverb

Example Sentences

the process of semantic development

Recent Examples on the Web The semantic subtype primarily leads to a loss of word comprehension. —

Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 9 Mar. 2023 Language is always changing, and accounting for semantic evolution is not always possible. —

Kim Severson, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2023 ViT-22B has been trained on various visual tasks, such as image classification, object detection, semantic segmentation, and image captioning. —

Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 7 Mar. 2023 Wolf explains how this experience, at first appearing straightforward, is actually the product of several different parts of your brain (semantic and grammatical systems) working together to attach symbols to words. —

Melanie Hamon, Longreads, 23 Feb. 2023 From the semantic map, occupancy and cost maps are built with the sidewalk identified as walk-able area and everything else considered as an obstacle. —

IEEE Spectrum, 12 July 2019 Drones are commonly in scenes with few or no semantic priors on the environment and must deftly navigate thin objects, extreme lighting, camera artifacts, motion blur, textureless surfaces, vibrations, dirt, smudges, and fog. —

IEEE Spectrum, 20 Jan. 2023 The first is an interesting and sometimes important semantic question. —

Andrew Pulrang, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022 Thanks to large-scale vectorization, LLMs enable true semantic search for the first time: the ability to index and access information based on underlying concepts and context rather than simple keywords. —

Rob Toews, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022 See More

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