hypernym
hyperonym

Sensor, hypernym for devices that measure with little interaction, typically used in technical applications.

A hypernym is said to be "superordinate" to a hyponym.

Umbrella term is also called a hypernym.

In simpler terms, a hyponym shares a type-of relationship with its hypernym.

It is created using a' hypernym index', in which each word is listed with its hypernyms.

Hypernymy is the semantic relation in which one word is the hypernym of another.

Both nouns and verbs are organized into hierarchies, defined by hypernym or IS A relationships.

For example, vehicle is a hypernym of car, and car is a hyponym of vehicle.

This kind of generalization versus specialization (or particularization) is reflected in the mirror of the contrasting words hypernym and hyponym.

For example, scarlet, vermilion, carmine, and crimson are all hyponyms of red (their hypernym), which is, in turn, a hyponym of colour.

As a hypernym can be understood as a more general word than its hyponym, the relation is used in semantic compression by generalization to reduce a level of specialization.

WordNet (a semantic lexicon for the English language, which puts words in semantic relations to each other, mainly by using the concepts hypernym and hyponym.)

A hypernym as a generic stands for a class or group of equally-ranked items such as tree does for peach and oak; or ship for cruiser and steamer.

In linguistics, a hyponym is a word or phrase whose semantic field is included within that of another word, its hypernym (sometimes spelled hyperonym outside of the natural language processing community).

Other, late 20th century examples, such as hypernym and characternym, are typically incorrectly formed neologisms for which there are more traditional words formed in -onym (hyperonym and charactonym).

Hispano-Celtic is a hypernym to include all the linguistic varieties of Celtic spoken in the Iberian Peninsula before the arrival of the Romans (in c. 218 BC, during the Second Punic War):

For instance, the first sense of the word dog would have the following hypernym hierarchy; the words at the same level are synonyms of each other: some sense of dog is synonymous with some other senses of domestic dog and Canis lupus familiaris, and so on.

Q-based narrowing occurs when a word A is a hypernym of a word B - that is, when every instance of B is an example of A. It is then common for the use of A to imply not B. For example, consider the words finger and thumb.