The lexeme is the smallest unit of meaning in a language.
Лексема — это наименьшая единица значения в языке.
Definitionen
In linguistics, an abstract unit of lexical meaning underlying a family of inflected word forms and functioning as a single entry in the mental or written lexicon.
The lexeme 'run' encompasses the forms 'runs', 'ran', and 'running'.
In computer science, a contiguous sequence of characters in source code recognised as a single token during lexical analysis.
During tokenisation, the sequence '==' is identified as one lexeme representing the equality operator.