synonym ring
A list of words with related meanings used to broaden the scope of a word search. As well as returning documents which contain a sought-for word a search using a synonym ring might also return documents which contain words in the same synonym ring as a sought-for word. Synonym rings are produced manually and are usually specific to a certain field, e.g. legal knowhow.
Last updated: 1997-04-09
Nearby terms:
syncronous ♦ synflood ♦ synonym ring ♦ syntactic salt ♦ syntactic sugar
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