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Webster 1913 Edition
Nomenclature
1.
A name.
[Obs.]
Bacon.
2.
A vocabulary, dictionary, or glossary.
[R.]
3.
The technical names used in any particular branch of science or art, or by any school or individual;
as, the
nomenclature
of botany or of chemistry; the nomenclature
of Lavoisier
and his associates.Webster 1828 Edition
Nomenclature
NOMENCLATURE
,Noun.
1.
A list or catalogue of the more usual and important words in a language, with their significations; a vocabulary or dictionary_webster1828.2.
The names of things in any art or science, or the whole vocabulary of names or technical terms which are appropriated to any particular branch of science; as the nomenclature of botany or of chimistry; the new nomenclature of Lavoisier and his associates.Definition 2024
nomenclature
nomenclature
English
Noun
nomenclature (countable and uncountable, plural nomenclatures)
- A set of rules used for forming the names or terms in a particular field of arts or sciences.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page ix
- It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page ix
- A set of names or terms.
- (obsolete) A name.
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set of names or terms
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External links
- nomenclature in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- nomenclature in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911