Meanings
adjectivegraph-theoretic (not comparable)
- alternativenot comparablemathematicsAlternative form of graph-theoretical.
The word tree here is a graph-theoretic term: a graph with directed links between the words, where each word except one—the root word—has exactly one parent, and there are no cycles.
2025, Edward A. F. Gibson, “Introduction” (chapter 1), in Syntax: A Cognitive Approach, MIT Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 6
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