Definition of "syntagma"

syntagma

/sɪnˈtæɡmə/

noun
plural syntagmata or syntagmas
1. (linguistics) A constituent segment within a text, such as a word or a phrase that forms a syntactic unit.
2. (semiotics) An arrangement of units that together bears a meaning.
  Quotations
  The Gospel is not a system of Theology, nor a Syntagma of theoretical propositions and conclusions for the enlargement of speculative knowledge, ethical or metaphysical.
  1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Aphorisms on that which is indeed spiritual religion”, in Aids to Reflection‎, page 198
3. (history) A Macedonian phalanx fighting formation consisting of 256 men with long spears (sarissae).
4. (biology) An organized structural, functional unit of anatomical or chemical subunits: equivalent to "tagma", or a structure comprising several tagmata in various contexts.