Terminology
[,tɜːmɪ'nɒlədʒɪ] or [,tɝmə'nɑlədʒi]
Definition
(noun.) a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline; 'legal terminology'; 'biological nomenclature'; 'the language of sociology'.
Editor: Philip--From WordNet
Definition
(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; as, the terminology of chemistry.
Editor: Wendell
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Glossology, nomenclature.
Typed by Katie
Examples
- But scientific terminology has an additional use. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It takes the technique for the thing itself; the apparatus and the terminology for reality, the method for its subject matter. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The scope of coordination (to use our prior terminology) is extremely limited. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In strict terminology it is a reversible battery, as will be quite obvious if we glance briefly at its philosophy. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- No attempt has been made to conform with strictly scientific terminology, but, for the benefit of the general reader, well-understood conventional expressions, such as flow of current, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Checker: Williams