principal part (English, noun)
expansion: principal part (plural principal parts)
Senses:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Any of the forms of a word which contain its stem(s) in the simplest form, or such a form that, when taken with all the other principal parts (showing various inflections), allows the entire paradigm to be derived.
tags: plural-normally
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Any one of however many parts of speech regarded as the most fundamental or indispensable.
The noun, verb, or adverb.
tags: obsolete
plural-normally
rare
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Any one of however many parts of speech regarded as the most fundamental or indispensable.
The noun or the verb.
tags: obsolete
plural-normally
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polynomial approximation of a power series, made up of monomials whose indices lie in the Newton diagram of the power series and which occur with the same coefficients as in the original power series.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The portion of a Laurent series that has negative exponents.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see principal, part.
Forms:
form: principal parts
tags: plural