Associations to the word «Terminology»

Wiktionary

TERMINOLOGY, noun. The doctrine of terms; a theory of terms or appellations; a treatise on terms, a system of specialized terms.
TERMINOLOGY, noun. The set of terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms; as, the terminology of chemistry.

Dictionary definition

TERMINOLOGY, 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