terminology

About 8.40 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A treatise on terms, especially those used in a specialised field.
2. noun The set of terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms.
3. noun The scientific study of such terms.
4. noun ↑ “terminology”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
5. noun ↑ “terminology”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Similar words

nomenclature language vocabulary lexicon glossary parlance wording appellation jargon phrase

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Word family

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