contrast set

noun

A set of concepts whose names are coordinate terms.

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Meanings

nouncontrast set (plural contrast sets)

plural contrast sets

  1. human sciencesA set of concepts whose names are coordinate terms.

    The notion of a contrast set is made explicit in recent work in formal semantics (Krifka 1991; Rooth 1985).

    1996, Toshio Inui, James L. McClelland, Attention and Performance XVI
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