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neoterms

neoterms is the plural of neoterm.

Meaning of neoterm

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)...

Questions about neoterms

What is neoterms the plural of?
Neoterms is the plural of neoterm.

Words near neoterms in the dictionary

  1. neoterizes
  2. neoterizing
  3. neoterm
  4. neoterminal
  5. neoterminals
  6. neoterms
  7. neotestamentary
  8. neotetanuran
  9. neotetanurans
  10. neotetraploid
  11. neotetraploids

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