meaning of lexeme

1. lexeme A minimal lexical unit of a language. Lexical analysis converts strings in a language into a list of lexemes. For a programming language these word-like pieces would include keywords, identifiers, literals and punctutation. The lexemes are then passed to the parser for syntactic analysis.
2. a minimal unit as a word or stem in the lexicon of a language; `go and `went and `gone and `going are all members of the English lexeme `go

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