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stemmatics meaning and definition
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Definition of stemmatics (noun)
- 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"
- synonyms: stemmatology
Source: Princeton University Wordnet