syntagma

1. (linguistics) A constituent segment within a text, such as a word or a phrase that forms a syntactic unit.Examples: "The syntagma “the God of peace” (in Greek ὁ Θεὸς τῆς εἰρήνης) occurs in all undisputed Pauline letters."

2. (semiotics) An arrangement of units that together bears a meaning.Examples: "To combine a sequence of shots into a larger syntagma, there has to be a connection between the successive shots."; "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."

3. (history) A Macedonian phalanx fighting formation consisting of 256 men with long spears (sarissae).Examples: "The men forming the syntagma were arranged in a square of sixteen files of sixteen."

4. (biology) An organized structural, functional unit of anatomical or chemical subunits: equivalent to "tagma", or a structure comprising several tagmata in various contexts.