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Meaning of allotermin | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

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Any of the different realisations of a termineme under a specific domain or environment. For instance, [MORPHOLOGY]_(TERM) is an abstract unit (i.e., termineme) with the meaning of "the study of forms of ..."; however, it gets alloterminalized as "the science of forms of living organisms" under biology, "the study of forms of words" under linguistics, "the general theory of form or formation" under philosophy, and "the science of forms of chemicals" under chemistry.

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B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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