Nomenclature
[nə(ʊ)'meŋklətʃə;'nəʊmən,kleɪtʃə] or [ˈnomənˌkletʃɚ]
Definition
(n.) A name.
(n.) A vocabulary, dictionary, or glossary.
(n.) The technical names used in any particular branch of science or art, or by any school or individual; as, the nomenclature of botany or of chemistry; the nomenclature of Lavoisier and his associates.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Terminology.
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Examples
- We procured the services of a gentleman experienced in the nomenclature of the American bar, and moved upon the works of one of these impostors. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Mr. Upton sums it all up very precisely in his remarks upon this period: What has now been made clear by accurate nomenclature was then very foggy in the text-books. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The terrors and horrors of Cocytus and Styx, ghosts and sapless shades, and the rest of their Tartarean nomenclature, must vanish. Plato. The Republic.
- Lavoisier had laid deep and broad in France the foundations of chemistry, and given the science nomenclature that lasted a century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He turne d his linguistic knowledge to account and furnishe d geology with a definite nomenclature. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Explanation of electric nomenclature can best be given by the analogy in hydrostatics of a stream of water passing in the hose pipe from a fire-engine. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Nomenclatures, formulas, apparatuses and processes have all changed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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