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eme

eme

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A small unit in language like a single sound or a word part
  • noun
  • /iːm/
  • Specialized
translation icon : eme
  • The study of morphemes, which are the building blocks of words, is closely related to the concept of an eme.

Examples

  • Yare said, 'You'll want to tell his eme and his father in Edinburgh.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • 1. The Electronic Migration Effect (EME) in the DETODs themselves (in the form of microchips and computers built into them operating at the speed of light, and many even containing code that self-improves the products in the field in real time).

    Blog text (26)
  • In EME Homer City Generation, L.P., v. EPA, petitioners successfully argued that EPA had exceeded its authority in regulating emissions from power plants.

    Blog text (2)
  • For example, one can guess the Bohr radius of a hydrogen atom, r0 = 4??0/(eme), by combining the relevant constants of nature.

    Academic text (2012)
  • For the processing, block divisions are kept to one-tenth of the original image size as it improves image properties such as edge content (EC) and enhancement measure (EME), which provide better edges and contrast between tissues.

    Academic text (2017)
  • In this work, EC and EME values are measured from the original and contrast-enhanced MR images, and the results show that both contrast improvement metrics are significantly larger than the original values, leading to a better outcome and making further computational techniques feasible.

    Academic text (2017)
  • In linguistics, an eme represents the smallest unit of meaning, such as in the words 'cat' and 'hat'.

  • Phonemes are considered an important type of eme in the study of spoken language.

Surface Forms

eme singular
emes plural

Etymology

The word eme in linguistics comes from the same ending you see in phoneme and morpheme, words that name the small parts of language. Linguists used that ending to make eme mean 'a small unit', so an eme is one of the smallest elements of language.