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Meronymy (from greek, meros = part and onoma = name) is a semantic relation used in linguistics. A meronym denotes a constituent part of, or a member of something.

The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) is an organization that assesses and accredits institutions of higher education in India. It is an autonomous body funded by University Grants Commission of Government of India headquartered in Bangalore.

A lexicographer is a person who compiles dictionaries. Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries.

Verbosity (also called wordiness, prolixity, grandiloquence, garrulousness, expatiation, and logorrhea) refers to speech or writing which is deemed to use an excess of words.

Pagerank is an algorithm used by google search to rank websites in their search engine results. Pagerank works by counting the number and quality of links to a page to determine a rough estimate of how important the website is. The underlying assumption is that more important websites are likely to receive more links from other websites.

Writing is a medium of communication that represents language through the inscription of signs and symbols. In most languages, writing is a complement to speech or spoken language.

Graphemics or graphematics is the linguistic study of writing systems and their basic components, i.e. graphemes.

The National Board of Accreditation (NBA), India was established by AICTE (All India Council of Technical Education) as an autonomous body under section 10(u) of AICTE act, 1987 for periodic evaluations of technical institutions & programmes basis according to specified norms and standards as recommended by AICTE council.

A uniform resource identifier (URI) is a string of characters used to identify a name of a web resource. Such identification enables interaction with representations of the web resource over a network (typically the World Wide Web) using specific protocols. Schemes specifying a concrete syntax and associated protocols define each URI.

A phoneme is a basic unit of a language's phonology, which is combined with other phonemes to form meaningful units such as words or morphemes. The phoneme can be described as the smallest contrastive linguistic unit which may bring about a change of meaning.

SPSS statistics is a software package used for statistical analysis.

An application programming interface (API) specifies how some software components should interact with each other.

Prescription or prescriptivism is the practice of championing one variety or manner of speaking of a language against another.

Etymology is the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time. By an extension, the term the etymology of [a word] means the origin of the particular word.