Terminology
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /ˌtɚməˈnɒləd͡ʒi/
- US IPA: /ˌtɚməˈnɑləd͡ʒi/
Origin
From Latin terminus ("a term") + -ology ("study of"), from -o- ("(interconsonantal)") + -logy, from Ancient Greek -λογία (-logÃa, "-logy, branch of study, to speak")
Full definition of terminology
Noun
terminology
(plural terminologies)- The doctrine of terms; a theory of terms or appellations; a treatise on terms, a system of specialized terms.
- The set of terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms; as, the terminology of chemistry.
- 1919, H. L. Mencken, S:The American Language/Chapter 27, 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.
- 2013-07-20, Welcome to the plastisphere, researchers noticed many of their pieces of 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.