Synonym ring

<information science> A list of words with related meanings used to broaden the scope of a word search.

As well as returning documents which contain a sought-for word a search using a synonym ring might also return documents which contain words in the same synonym ring as a sought-for word.

Synonym rings are produced manually and are usually specific to a certain field, e.g. legal knowhow.

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