Meaning of nomenclate | Babel Free

Definitions

To assign a name to, especially in accordance with a particular system of nomenclature; to name.

transitive

Examples

“Where specimens have appeared to me to be new, I have ventured, although with extreme diffidence, to nomenclate them.”

“Bleuler and Lehman nomenclate this state as smell and taste photismus.”

“... are meant for lions), tigers, antelopes, birds, satyrs and monstrous animals which it would puzzle a naturalist of the present age to nomenclate.”

“It grows more and more difficult to nomenclate noses as it does to classify character: tables of the length of noses in distinguished men have been collated, and the average fixed at two and five-eighths inches.”

“There is a distinction that should be made between the familiar verb "name" versus, what may seem pedantic to the casual user, "nomenclate". The connotation associated with "nomenclate" is one of an existent system in which one assigns some pre-determinable, precise name to a given form.”

“The difference between the perspectives of "organic" chemists (who view all ligands that have replaced a hydrogen atom in the parent compound as comparable and thus would nomenclate the lithium compound as "1-Lithio-", ...”

“It is very much important as well as essential to nomenclate a newly developed polymer to identify it and to differentiate it from the other.”

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