semantic

IPA: sɪmˈæntɪk

(linguistics) In such writing systems as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a phono-semantic character that provides an indication of its meaning; contrasted with phonetic.

Of or relating to semantics or the meanings of words.
(software design, of code) Reflecting intended structure and meaning.
(slang, of a detail or distinction) Petty or trivial; (of a person or statement) quibbling, niggling.

Examples of "semantic" in Sentences

Other companies have offered what they call semantic search based on the semantic web approach.
The credit money is created by simply moving numbers on a balance sheet, and what I call a semantic fraud against all of us.
So what we call semantic memory, remembering things by conceptual keys, like who was the first president of the United States.
Aristotle, in his time, distinguished between semantic and apophantic propositions, and noted, that if all propositions be _semantic_, not all are _apophantic_.
 The term semantic similarity is misleading as it refers to a type of attributional similarity, yet relational similarity is not any less semantic than attributional similarity.
The qualifier "semantic" is important: semantic programs are composed of encoded information in which symbols stand for and are translated into physical, chemical, and biological objects and processes.
The only difference is, in the modern sentential calculus Ï and Ï are not construed as terms denoting truth-values, but rather as sentences having truth conditions (though, in the semantics of the sentential calculus, sentences are assigned truth-values as their ˜semantic value™, and they are considered true/false according to which truth-value serves as their semantic value).