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neoterm

neoterm noun: a newly coined scientific or technical term.

Noun

neoterm (plural neoterms)

  1. A newly coined scientific or technical term.
    • The process by which a neoterm becomes transformed into a simple neologism in the general language is called determinologization, and occurs when there is a context shift in which the term undergoes a loss of its specialized nature.2024 March, Jeffrey Brent Frazier, A Corpus-Based Theory and Lexicographic Process for the Inclusion of Neologisms, Archaisms and Foreign Loanwords in Lexicons of Q'eqchi' Mayan (thesis)...

Forms of neoterm

pluralneoterms

Origin of neoterm

From neo- + term.

Questions about neoterm

What does neoterm mean?
Neoterm means a newly coined scientific or technical term.
What part of speech is neoterm?
Neoterm is a noun.
What is the plural of neoterm?
The plural of neoterm is neoterms.

Words near neoterm in the dictionary

  1. neoterists
  2. neoterize
  3. neoterized
  4. neoterizes
  5. neoterizing
  6. neoterm
  7. neoterminal
  8. neoterminals
  9. neoterms
  10. neotestamentary
  11. neotetanuran

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