terminology
nounEtymology
From French terminologie or German Terminologie and their source, New Latin terminologia, from Medieval Latin terminus (“a term”) + -ologia (“study of”), from -o- (“(interconsonantal)”) + -logia, from Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía, “-logy, branch of study, to speak”).
- derived from -λογία
- derived from terminus
- derived from terminologia
- borrowed from Terminologie
- borrowed from terminologie
Definitions
A treatise on terms, especially those used in a specialised field.
The set of terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like
The set of terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms.
- Ad for advertisement is struggling hard for general recognition; some of its compounds, e. g., ad-writer, want-ad, display-ad, ad-card, ad-rate, column-ad and ad-man, are already accepted in technical terminology.
- Language is always changing — but it shouldn’t become inflexible, especially when new terminologies, in the name of inclusion, sometimes wind up making others feel excluded.
The scientific study of such terms.
The neighborhood
- synonymnomenclature
- synonymvocabulary
- synonymlanguage
- synonymwording
- synonymphraseology
- synonymjargon
- synonymlingo
- synonym-ese
- neighborargot
- neighborjargon
- neighborterminism
- neighborterminist
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at terminology. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at terminology. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at terminology
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA