terminology

noun
/ˌtɜː.məˈnɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/UK/ˌtɝ.məˈnɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/US/ˌtɝ.məˈnɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/CA/ˌtɜː.məˈnɔl.ə.d͡ʒi/

Etymology

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”).

  1. derived from -λογία
  2. derived from terminus
  3. derived from terminologia
  4. borrowed from Terminologie
  5. borrowed from terminologie

Definitions

  1. A treatise on terms, especially those used in a specialised field.

  2. 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.
  3. The scientific study of such terms.

The neighborhood

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.

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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