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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 chemistry
.
The barbarous effect produced by a German structure of sentence, and a
terminology
altogether new.
De Quincey.

Webster 1828 Edition


Terminology

TERMINOL'OGY

,
Noun.
[L. terminus.] The doctrine of terms; a treatise on terms.
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)

  1. The doctrine of terms; a theory of terms or appellations; a treatise on terms, a system of specialized terms.
  2. 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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  • terminology in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • terminology in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Scots

Etymology

From English terminology.

Noun

terminology (plural terminologies)

  1. terminology