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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis);
- Example: "stemmatology also plays an important role in musicology"
- Example: "transcription errors are of decisive importance in stemmatics"
[syn: stemmatology, stemmatics]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

stemmatology
    n 1: the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the
         transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript
         form) on the basis of relations between the various
         surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis);
         "stemmatology also plays an important role in musicology";
         "transcription errors are of decisive importance in
         stemmatics" [syn: stemmatology, stemmatics]