Lexical
# Lexical

Lexical may refer to:

## Linguistics

* Lexical corpus or lexis, a complete set of all words in a language
* Lexical item, a basic unit of lexicographical classification
* Lexicon, the vocabulary of a person, language, or branch of knowledge
* Lexical (semiotics) or content word, words referring to things, as opposed to having only grammatical meaning
   * Lexical verb, a member of an open class of verbs that includes all verbs except auxiliary verbs
* Lexical aspect, a characteristic of the meaning of verbs
* Lexical form, the canonical form of a word, under which it appears in dictionaries
* Lexical definition or dictionary definition, the meaning of a term in common usage
* Lexical semantics, a subfield of linguistic semantics that studies how and what the words of a language denote

## Computing

* Lexical analysis, the process of converting a sequence of characters into a sequence of tokens
* Lexical Markup Framework, the ISO standard for natural language processing and machine-readable dictionary lexicons
* Lexical scope, a scope in computer programming

## Other uses

* Lexical approach, a method of teaching foreign languages
* Lexical hypothesis, a widely used theory in personality psychology
