In linguistics, semantics, general semantics, and ontologies, hyponymy (from Ancient Greek ὑπό (hupó) 'under' and ὄνυμα (ónuma) 'name') shows the relationship between a generic term … See more

Computer science often terms this relationship an "is-a" relationship. For example, the phrase "Red is-a color" can be used to describe the hyponymic relationship between red and color.
Hyponymy is the most frequently encoded relation among See more

• Snow, Rion; Jurafsky, Daniel; Ng, Andrew Y. (2004). "Learning syntactic patterns for automatic hypernym discovery" (PDF). Advances in Neural Information … See more

Hyperonym and hypernym mean the same thing, with both in use by linguists. The form hypernym interprets the -o- of hyponym as a part of … See more

• Contrast set – Collection of related items in a schema or ontology
• Has-a – Composition relationship in object-oriented programming
• Is-a – Subsumption relationship between abstractions See more

• Hypernym at Everything2.com See more