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Webster 1913 Edition
Terminology
Terˊmi-nol′o-gy
,Noun.
[L.
terminus
term + -logy
: cf. F. terminologie
.] 1.
The doctrine of terms; a theory of terms or appellations; a treatise on terms.
2.
The terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms;
as, the
. terminology
of chemistryThe barbarous effect produced by a German structure of sentence, and a
terminology
altogether new. De Quincey.
Webster 1828 Edition
Terminology
TERMINOL'OGY
,Noun.
1.
In natural history, that branch of the science which explains all the terms used in the description of natural objects.Definition 2024
terminology
terminology
English
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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doctrine of terms
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terms used in any business, art, etc
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External links
- terminology in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- terminology in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911