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Nomenclator

Nomenclator \No"men*cla`tor\, n. [L., fr. nomen name + calare to call. See Name, and Calendar.]

  1. One who calls persons or things by their names.

    Note: In Rome, candidates for office were attended each by a nomenclator, who informed the candidate of the names of the persons whom they met and whose votes it was desirable to solicit.

  2. One who gives names to things, or who settles and adjusts the nomenclature of any art or science; also, a list or vocabulary of technical names.

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nomenclator

n. 1 An assistant who specializes in providing timely and spatially relevant reminders of the names of persons and other socially important information. 2 One who assigns or constructs names for persons or objects or classes thereof, as in a scientific classification system. 3 A document containing such name assignments.

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Nomenclator

Nomenclator may refer to:

  • Nomenclator omnium rerum propria nomina variis linguis explicata indicans, 16th century book written by Hadrianus Junius
  • Nomenclator, in cryptography, a kind of substitution cypher
  • Nomenclator (nomenclature) as a noun meaning: a book listing names or terms; someone providing names to another person; an official announcing people at a public gathering; a person who applies names.
  • "Nomenklator", a song by the Bulgarian rock band Shturcite, appears as a B-side to the 1990 single " Az sum prosto chovek"
Nomenclator (nomenclature)

A nomenclator (; English plural nomenclators, Latin plural nomenclatores; derived from the Latin nomen- name + calare - to call), in classical times, referred to a slave whose duty was to recall the names of persons his master met during a political campaign. Later this became names of people in any social context and included other socially important information.

However, it has taken on several other meanings and also refers to a book containing collections or lists of words. It also denotes a person, generally a public official, who announces the names of guests at a party or other social gathering or ceremony.

In more general terms still, it is a person who provides or creates the names for things. and this can apply to the application of names in a scientific or any other context but especially in relation to specialist terminologies, glossaries etc.

Usage examples of "nomenclator".

Encipherment in a polyalphabetic system, with its need to keep track of which alphabet was in use at every point and to make sure that the ciphertext letter was taken from that alphabet, could not compare in speed with a nomenclator encipherment.

An odd characteristic is that nomenclators were always written on large folded sheets of paper, whereas modern codes are almost invariably in book or booklet form.

Stratton took up residence in London and secured a position as a nomenclator at Coade Manufactory, one of the leading makers of automata in England.

Torpadie so impressed the Swedish authorities by solving a nomenclator of 1632 for a historical study that they commissioned him to set up a cryptologic bureau called Room 100, Swedish cryptology got its real start with Yves Gylden.

VOLUME TWO CHAPTER I A CORNER OF SOCIETY In a London drawing-room, where the murmur of urbane colloquy rose and fell, broken occasionally by the voice of the nomenclator announcing new arrivals, two ladies, seated in a recess, were exchanging confidences.

Diomed, who was rather ceremonious, had appointed a nomenclator, or appointer of places to each guest.

Though some of the nomenclators that Bergenroth recovered were later found in the archives, many others never were, and only his cryptanalyses brought the documents to light.

Mary not infrequently ordered changes in her nomenclators, which were much smaller and flimsier than the diplomatic ones.

The nomenclators had had their 1,- or 2,000 code-numbers in mixed order, but the war and foreign ministries balked at the expense of drawing up a 50,000-entry code in two parts, and they had no professional cryptanalysts to warn them of the danger of the one-part format.

His sister laughed with him, squeezed his hand again, and then stepped aside so that the horrified nomenclators could resume their duties.