Word of the Day:
terminology
What It Means
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.
The scientific study of such terms.
Terminology in Context
“[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...”
Did You Know?
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”).
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