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nomenclature

noun
/nə(ʊ)ˈmɛŋ.klət͡ʃə/UK/ˈnoʊmənˌkleɪt͡ʃɚ/US/nomən.kletʃə(r)/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nōmenclātūra (“a calling by name, list of names”), from nōmen (“name”) + calāre (“call”). Doublet of nomenklatura.

  1. borrowed from nōmenclātūra

Definitions

  1. A set of rules used for forming the names or terms in a particular field of arts or…

    A set of rules used for forming the names or terms in a particular field of arts or sciences.

    • It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.

  2. A set of names or terms.

    • Another major defect of the current literature dealing with the nomenclature of hybrid forms of English is the scant attention paid to the question of frequency.

  3. A name.

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Derived

binomenclature, binomial nomenclature, bionomenclature, chemical nomenclature, comiconomenclaturist, Linnaean nomenclature, nomenclatural, nomenclaturally, nomenclaturism, nomenclaturist, substitutive nomenclature

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nomenclature. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA