terminology
/ˌtɜː.məˈnɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/US/ˌtɝ.məˈnɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
terminology noun: a treatise on terms, especially those used in a specialised field.
Noun
terminology (countable and uncountable, plural terminologies)
- A treatise on terms, especially those used in a specialised field.
- The set of terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms.
- 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.[1921 [1919], H. L. Mencken, chapter 27, in The American Language, 2nd edition, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, →OCLC
- [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...2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
- The scientific study of such terms.
terminology meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
terminology in Hindi
- treatise on terms
- शब्दावली śabdāvlī
- terms used in any business, art, etc
- शब्दावली śabdāvlī, पारिभाषिकी pāribhāṣikī
terminology in Tamil
- குறிப்பிட்டத்துறைக்குரிய சொல்லாட்சி, சொல்லியல், சொற்றொகுதி, கலைச் சொல்லியல், கலைச்சொல்தொகுதி
terminology in Marathi
- शब्दावली
terminology in Urdu
- terms used in any business, art, etc
- اِصْطِلاحات istilāhāt
More languagesFewer languages
- terminology in Bengali
- পরিভাষা poribhaśa
- terminology in Telugu
- పరిభాష paribhāṣa
- terminology in Malayalam
- സംജ്ഞാശാസ്ത്രം, സങ്കേതഭാഷ, നാമശാസ്ത്രം, സാങ്കേതിക പദങ്ങൾ
- terminology in Kannada
- ಅರಿಮೆಯ ಪದ, ಪರಿಭಾಷೆ
- terminology in Gujarati
- પરિભાષા, પરિભાષાવિજ્ઞાન, શબ્દાવલી
- terminology in Nepali
- शब्दावली
- terminology in Tagalog
- katawagan, tawag
- terminology in Arabic
- عِلْمُ المُصْطَلَحِ ʕilmu l-muṣṭalaḥi, مُصْطَلَح muṣṭalaḥ
- terminology in Malay
- terminologi, peristilahan
- terminology in Indonesian
- terminologi, peristilahan
- terminology in Thai
- ศัพท์เฉพาะ sàp-chà-pɔ́
Examples of terminology in a sentence
- According to anthropology, there are six basic patterns of kinship terminology or kin naming systems.
- Most Machiguenga lack personal names. Members of the same tribe are individuated using kin terminology.
- Italic fonts are sometimes described as oblique in typographic terminology.
Synonyms of terminology
Forms of terminology
| plural | terminologies |
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Origin of terminology
From French terminologie or German Terminologie and their source, New Latin terminologia, from Medieval Latin terminus (“a term”) + -ologia (“study of”), from -o- (“(interconsonantal)”) + -logia, from Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía, “-logy, branch of study, to speak”).
Words formed from terminology
Questions about terminology
- What does terminology mean?
- Terminology means a treatise on terms, especially those used in a specialised field.
- What is terminology in Hindi?
- Terminology in Hindi is शब्दावली (śabdāvlī), पारिभाषिकी (pāribhāṣikī). See Terminology meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is terminology?
- Terminology is a noun.
- How do you pronounce terminology?
- Terminology is pronounced /ˌtɜː.məˈnɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/ (UK).
- What is the plural of terminology?
- The plural of terminology is terminologies.
Words near terminology in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: terminology (page history and authors); terminology (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); terminology (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); పరిభాష (Telugu) (page history and authors); terminology (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); terminology (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); terminology (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); terminology (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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