Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The vocabulary of technical terms used in a particular field, subject, science, or art; nomenclature.
- n. The study of nomenclature.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The doctrine or science of technical terms; teaching or theory regarding the proper use of terms.
- n. Collectively, the terms used in any art, science, or the like; nomenclature: as, the terminology of botany. It is sometimes restricted to the terms employed to describe the characters of things, as distinguished from their names, or a nomenclature. See
nomenclature , 2, and comparevocabulary .
Wiktionary
- n. The doctrine of terms; a theory of terms or appellations; a treatise on terms, a system of specialized terms.
- n. The set of terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms; as, the terminology of chemistry.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The doctrine of terms; a theory of terms or appellations; a treatise on terms.
- n. The terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline
Examples
“This change in terminology is not intended to be hostile or vengeful, though such reactions would not seem unwarranted at this point, but it would serve two clear purposes:”
“(If you do manage to master the label terminology, you can tell which German rieslings are sweet and which are dry, as you cannot from the labels of most wines from, say, Alsace.)”
“Just in case the terminology is a bit unclear, nursing refers to looking after an aged or infirm relative, and “returning to the workforce systems” is for mothers looking for a new job, as currently they find it very difficult to get a professional post after a few years out of the market.”
“So you’re right, precision in terminology is important, and I’m willing to bet that in the poll shown in the original post, none of these ideas were given as background.”
Matthew Yglesias » Americans Don’t Like “Socialism” But Many Democrats Do
“Ignorance over terminology is not the only issue here.”
“Even allowing for regional differences in terminology, that would be a huge stretch.”
“Although the discussion continues, sometimes at ad nauseam, the current acceptable terminology is people-first language, which puts the person before the disability.”
“This sort of terminology is on too high a level for the students I have.”
“He says, using a lot of Latin terminology, that murder would be wrong even if it were not illegal.”
Thoughts on Immigration, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“(My knowledge of sci fi terminology is sketchy at best).”
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Language
word, sentence, novel, book, novella, vignette, memoir, anthology, paragraph, stanza, poem, haiku and 123 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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INTERP - terminology management terms
Terms from the fields of terminology, lexicography, lexicology and corpus linguistics
reworder, rewording, parser, parsing, tagger, tagging, aligner, aligning, content analysis, content analyzer, corpus management, glossary and 546 more...
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aozuas's Words
sense data, hyperreality, brouhaha, ibid, apophenia, fnord, lackadaisical, schadenfreude, bildungsroman, ready-made, readymade, tergiversar and 654 more...
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HorsesintheSouth
Words pertaining to horses, equines, equestrians
horse, equine, equestrian, dressage, hunter, jumper, puissance, capriole, sidepass, levade, augurian, coop and 296 more...
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INTERP - VOCABULARY
The vocabulary of conference interpreting. I commend this list to those who want to know more about the profession and to those who wish to organize their knowledge about the profession. To aspirin...
retour language, A-language, B-language, C-language, relay language, take sy on relay, language booth, booth meeting, mic, mike, mission, freelance interpr... and 2086 more...
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ologies
technology, acarology, aceology, acology, adenology, aedoeology, aerobiology, aerolithology, aerology, agriology, agrobiology, agrology and 850 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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Translation Studies
Useful words or abbreviations for students of translation to remember and refer to throughout their studies.
corpus, hyponym, holonym, meronym, terminology, lexicology, CAT (computer-aid..., concordancer, localization, text aligner, hyperonymy, synonymy and 9 more...
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hypothesis / formulation
formulations, implementation, interpretation, terminology, modeling, framework, methodology, formula, exposition, evaluation, specification, classification and 20 more...
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How to Read a Book
premise, proposition, term, terminology, vocabulary, grammer
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