Meaning

A treatise on terms, especially those used in a specialised field..

Definitions by Sense

1. A treatise on terms, especially those used in a specialised field.
2. The set of terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms.
3. The scientific study of such terms.

Example Sentences

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.

[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.

Language is always changing — but it shouldn’t become inflexible, especially when new terminologies, in the name of inclusion, sometimes wind up making others feel excluded.

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Synonyms for terminology

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When Should You Use Terminology?

Use terminology when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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