mereological
/ˌmɪəɹiəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.15 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to mereology, a collection of axiomatic first-order theories dealing with parts and their respective wholes.
Example Sentences
- "Join is a mereological relation which can be interpreted as union set-theoretically."
- "I think that theories like mereological nihilism are interesting in the way that epistemological skepticism is interesting, the main question for both being how do we avoid this?"
Etymology
Etymology tree English mereology Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ical English -ical English mereological From mereology + -ical.