Associations to the word «Nomenclature»

Wiktionary

NOMENCLATURE, noun. (obsolete) A name.
NOMENCLATURE, noun. A set of names or terms.
NOMENCLATURE, noun. A set of rules used for forming the names or terms in a particular field of arts or sciences.

Dictionary definition

NOMENCLATURE, noun. A system of words used to name things in a particular discipline; "legal terminology"; "biological nomenclature"; "the language of sociology".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats