lexicographic

English

Etymology

From lexicography +‎ -ic.

Adjective

lexicographic (comparative more lexicographic, superlative most lexicographic)

1. Like a dictionary, relating to lexicography (the writing of a dictionary).

   Synonym: lexicographical

   Antonyms: nonlexicographic, nonlexicographical

2. (chiefly computing) Relating to alphabetical order or a generalization thereof.

   Synonyms: lexical, lexicographical

Usage notes

• The phrase lexicographic order means in alphabetical order. It is a common term in computer science. It may indicate that numbers are to be treated as strings so 10 comes before 2 because there is no positional weighting and the symbol 1 comes before 2.

Derived terms

• lexicographical
• lexicographically
• lexicographic order

 

Translations

like a dictionary, relating to lexicography

• Asturian: lexicográficu
• Belarusian: лексікаграфі́чны (ljeksikahrafíčny)
• Bengali: আভিধানিক (bn) (abhidhanik)
• Catalan: lexicogràfic (ca)
• Czech: slovníkářský, lexikografický
• Danish: leksikografisk
• Dutch: lexicografisch (nl)
• Finnish: leksikografinen
• French: lexicographique (fr)
• Galician: lexicográfico (gl)
• German: lexikografisch (de)
• Hungarian: lexikográfiai
• Ido: lexikografiala (io)
• Italian: lessicografico (it)
• Latvian: leksikogrāfisks
• Polish: leksykograficzny (pl)
• Portuguese: lexicográfico
• Russian: лексикографи́ческий (ru) (leksikografíčeskij), слова́рный (ru) (slovárnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лексико̀графскӣ

  Roman: leksikògrafskī (sh)

• Spanish: lexicográfico (es)
• Swedish: lexikografisk (sv)
• Ukrainian: лексикографі́чний (leksykohrafíčnyj)

Further reading

• “lexicographic”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• lexicographic, lexicographical at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.