|This article does not cite any references or sources. (November
2011)| - “X” is a meronym of “Y” if Xs are parts of Y(s), or -
“X” is a meronym of “Y” if Xs are members of Y(s). For example,
'finger' is a meronym of 'hand' because a finger is part of a
hand. Similarly 'wheel' is a meronym of 'automobile'. Meronymy
is the opposite of holonymy. A closely related concept is that
of mereology, which specifically deals with part/whole relations
and is used in logic. It is formally expressed in terms of
first-order logic. A meronymy can also be considered a partial
order. A meronym means part of a whole. A word denoting a subset
of what another word denotes is a hyponym. In knowledge
representation languages, meronymy is often expressed as "part-
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