Holonymy

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Holonymy (from ancient Greek ὅλος holos "whole, complete") is a term from linguistics and describes the word of a "part-of-relationship" between words, which includes the other: Is a word A a holonym of another word B , the word B denotes part of what is meant by A.

Example of holonymy: the term face includes nose . Thus face is a holonym of nose .

The inversion of this relation is called meronymy .

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