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nomenclatures

nomenclatures is the plural of nomenclature.

Meaning of nomenclature

Noun

nomenclature (countable and uncountable, plural nomenclatures)

  1. A set of rules used for forming the names or terms in a particular field of arts or sciences.
    • It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page ix
  2. A set of names or terms.
    • I'll try to educate ya / Gonna familiarize you with the nomenclature2014, "Weird Al" Yankovic, “Word Crimes”
  3. (obsolete) A name.

Questions about nomenclatures

What is nomenclatures the plural of?
Nomenclatures is the plural of nomenclature.

Words near nomenclatures in the dictionary

  1. nomenclaturalist
  2. nomenclaturalists
  3. nomenclaturally
  4. nomenclaturas
  5. nomenclature
  6. nomenclatures
  7. nomenclaturism
  8. nomenclaturist
  9. nomenclaturists
  10. nomenklatura
  11. nomenklaturas

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