Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

contrast set

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.43 in modern English

Syllables: con-trast set
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A set of concepts whose names are coordinate terms.

Example Sentences

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

Inflected Forms

contrast sets (plural)

Questions

What does contrast set mean?: A set of concepts whose names are coordinate terms.

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