Terminology

Definitions

1. A treatise on terms, especially those used in a specialised field.
   countable, uncountable
2. The set of terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms.
   countable, uncountable
3. The scientific study of such terms.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“[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.”

“Language is always changing — but it shouldn’t become⟳ inflexible, especially when new terminologies, in the name⟳ of inclusion, sometimes wind up making others feel⟳ excluded.”

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