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Webster 1913 Edition


Nomenclature

No′men-claˊture

,
Noun.
[L.
nomenclatura
: cf. F.
nomenclature
. See
Nomenclator
.]
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.
[See Nomenclator.]
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)

  1. 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.
  2. A set of names or terms.
  3. (obsolete) A name.

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  • nomenclature in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • nomenclature in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

French

Noun

nomenclature f (plural nomenclatures)

  1. nomenclature

Italian

Noun

nomenclature f

  1. plural of nomenclatura