synonym ring
English
Noun
synonym ring (plural synonym rings)
- (information science, metadata) Synonym of synset
- 1982, F. N. Teskey, Principles of Text Processing:
- A synonym ring is a set of words or phrases (which are regarded as synonymous). A thesaurus is a set of trees whose nodes are synonym rings.
- 1985, Library Science with a Slant to Documentation:
- Each term in a synonym ring is equally likely to occur in any relevant article and so it is necessary to search for them all rather than one preferred term.
- 2002, Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 178:
- A synonym ring (see Figure 9-2) connects a set of words that are defined as equivalent for the purposes of retrieval. In practice, these words are often not true synonyms.
- 1982, F. N. Teskey, Principles of Text Processing:
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