Polyneme

Pol´y`neme

(Zool.) Any one of numerous species of tropical food fishes of the family Polynemidæ. They have several slender filaments, often very long, below the pectoral fin. Some of them yield isinglass of good quality. Called also threadfish.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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Some of these include property lists or polynemes, frames and transframes, frame-arrays, database query languages, explanation-based reasoning, haptic representations, K-trees and level-bands, logic programming, rule-based systems, micronemes, natural language expressions, semantic networks, scripts and stories, and object-based programming.

Such an architecture would embed such representations as natural language, scripts, transframes, semantic nets, frames and frame arrays, K-lines and polynemes, neural nets, and micronemes.