Terminology Definition

tûrmə-nŏlə-jē
terminologies
noun
terminologies
The terms or system of terms used in a specific science, art, etc.; nomenclature.
Lexicographer's terminology.
Webster's New World
The systematic study of terms.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Terminology

Noun

Singular:
terminology
Plural:
terminologies

Origin of Terminology

  • From Latin terminus (“a term") + -ology (“study of"), from -o- (“(interconsonantal)") + -logy, from Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía, “-logy, branch of study, to speak")

    From Wiktionary

  • German Terminologie from Medieval Latin terminus expression term

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Terminology Sentence Examples

  • In this kingdom the system of agricultural terminology was based on it.

  • The summary of results might as well have been in a foreign language with the medical terminology, abbreviations and sprinkling of what seemed like random numbers.

  • The two divisions of the spore mother cell in which the reduction takes place, follow each other very rapidly and are known as Heterotype and Homotype (Flemming), or according to the terminology of Farmer and Moore (1905) as the meiotic phase.

  • Boyle rejected this terminology, which was only strictly applicable to intelligent beings; and he used the word " affinity " as had been previously done by Stahl and others.

  • The terminology is sometimes confused.

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Words Starting With

TTETER

Words Ending With

YGYOGY

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terminology

Words Starting With T and Ending With Y

Starts With T & Ends With YStarts With TE & Ends With YStarts With T & Ends With GY

Word Length

11 Letter Words11 Letter Words Starting With T11 Letter Words Ending With Y