synonym ring

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synonym ring

noun

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Computing, Engineering, Human sciences, Information science, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Synonym of synset.

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.1982, F. N. Teskey, Principles of Text Processing
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.1985, Library Science with a Slant to Documentation

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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.2002, Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 178:

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