'stemmatics' definitions:
Definition of 'stemmatics'
From: WordNet
noun
The humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis); "stemmatology also plays an important role in musicology"; "transcription errors are of decisive importance in stemmatics" [syn: stemmatology, stemmatics]