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Morpheme

MORPHOLOGY: a term which refers to the smallest component of a word that (a) seems to contribute some sort of meaning, or a grammatical function to the word to which it belongs, and (b) cannot itself be decomposed into smaller morphemes. EXAMPLE: the English word disagreement can be decomposed into three morphemes, viz. the prefix dis-, the base morpheme agree, and the suffix -ment.