terminology
English
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for terminology in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Etymology
From Latin terminus (“a term”) + -ology (“study of”), from -o- (“(interconsonantal)”) + -logy, from Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía, “-logy, branch of study, to speak”)
Noun
terminology (countable and uncountable, plural terminologies)
- The doctrine of terms; a theory of terms or appellations; a treatise on terms, a system of specialized terms.
- The set of terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms.
- 1919, H. L. Mencken, The American Language:
- 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.
- 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
- [The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. […] Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, and that in several cases these bacteria were dividing and thus, by the perverse arithmetic of biological terminology, multiplying.
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Translations
doctrine of terms
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terms used in any business, art, etc
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Further reading
- terminology in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- terminology in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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