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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
terminology
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
kinship
▪ When you read anything that any anthropologist has written on the topic of kinship terminology be on your guard.
▪ The project will use the results of such analysis to re-examine conventional theories of kinship terminologies.
▪ First, and as before, there was evidence of this stage from kinship terminologies.
▪ The comparative study of kinship terminologies is one of the longest established traditions in academic anthropology.
■ VERB
use
▪ I mean this was the scene we were all at, to use the then terminology.
▪ In this way people using such a terminology may distinguish the role of father from that of father's brother.
▪ The artificial intelligence community sometimes uses terminology a bit loosely.
▪ We also reject the belief that knowing how to use terminology in which to speak of language is undesirable.
▪ The manager may not use this terminology, but the data analyst will be able to interpret the comments made.
▪ It is in that spirit that we shall use conventional psychiatric terminology here.
▪ Chomsky is therefore highly critical of the way in which Skinner uses operant terminology to account for language.
▪ Ethnicity, to use modern terminology, occupied more of the tsar's attention than diplomacy.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ In legal terminology, a widow is the 'relict' of her late husband.
▪ It is important that lawyers use the correct terminology when they prepare contracts.
▪ It was an interesting programme, which gave the facts without using too much scientific terminology.
▪ Kelly wants to be a nurse, and is taking a medical terminology class at night.
▪ medical terminology
▪ One of the hardest things when studying linguistics is learning all the right terminology.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Even more bizarre was the terminology the firm used to describe its internal problems.
▪ For a summary of the terminology used above in relation to a specific example, see Table 5.1.
▪ In the terminology of the moment, put me down as a hanging chad.
▪ It seems that the framers of the Act wanted to update the terminology, but not to change the concept.
▪ New terminologies were not difficult to master, and gradually the possibility of perfection began edging its way into my life.
▪ Such terminology will undoubtedly continue to change as social constructions of disability evolve.
▪ Understand the acronyms and unique terminology.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Terminology

Terminology \Ter`mi*nol"o*gy\, n. [L. terminus term + -logy: cf. F. terminologie.]

  1. The doctrine of terms; a theory of terms or appellations; a treatise on terms.

  2. The terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms; as, the terminology of chemistry.

    The barbarous effect produced by a German structure of sentence, and a terminology altogether new.
    --De Quincey.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
terminology

1770, from German Terminologie, a hybrid coined by Christian Gottfried Schütz (1747-1832), professor of poetry and rhetoric at Jena, from Medieval Latin terminus "word, expression" (see terminus) + Greek -logia "a dealing with, a speaking of" (see -logy). Related: Terminological.

Wiktionary
terminology

n. 1 The doctrine of terms; a theory of terms or appellations; a treatise on terms, a system of specialized terms. 2 The set of terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms; as, the terminology of chemistry.

WordNet
terminology

n. a system of words used in a particular discipline; "legal terminology"; "the language of sociology" [syn: nomenclature, language]

Wikipedia
Terminology (disambiguation)

Terminology may refer to:

  • Terminology, study of terms and their uses or discipline studying labelling of concepts
  • Terminology (artifact), set of designations
Terminology

Terminology is the study of terms and their use. Terms are words and compound words or multi-word expressions that in specific contexts are given specific meanings—these may deviate from the meanings the same words have in other contexts and in everyday language. Terminology is a discipline that studies, among other things, the development of such terms and their interrelationships within a specialized domain. Terminology differs from lexicography, as it involves the study of concepts, conceptual systems and their labels (terms), whereas lexicography studies words and their meanings.

Terminology is a discipline that systematically studies the "labelling or designating of concepts" particular to one or more subject fields or domains of human activity. It does this through the research and analysis of terms in context for the purpose of documenting and promoting consistent usage. Terminology can be limited to one or more languages (for example, "multilingual terminology" and "bilingual terminology"), or may have an interdisciplinarity focus on the use of terms in different fields.

Terminology (software)

Terminology is a terminal emulator for the X Window System and for the Wayland graphic server. The software can also run in a framebuffer console that allows it to be used outside an X11 or Wayland graphic environment. While it is the default terminal emulator for the Enlightenment window manager, and was developed by the Enlightenment development team for that purpose, it can be used in most other desktop environments as well.

Terminology provides some features not typically found in a terminal emulator, e.g., preview thumbnails of images, videos and documents. It can work with multimedia playback and text-strings manipulation ( copying and pasting filenames and URLs), and can be touch controlled. On the other hand, it provides less complete emulation of vt100 than other terminals.

Usage examples of "terminology".

How can an anarchist who has a right-wing background understand or relate to a left-wing anarchist, who uses Marxist terminology?

All-Soul being whittled down into fragments, yet this is what they would be doing, annulling the All-Soul--if any collective soul existed at all--making it a mere piece of terminology, thinking of it like wine separated into many portions, each portion, in its jar, being described as a portion of the total thing, wine.

Egg of Manyness, this great womb of pattern forming, is thus partially expressible by geometry and mathematics, as indeed it is by any terminology or language which describes relationships.

I will use the simpler terminology that the map represents pitch values modulo octaves.

The philologue, the historian of to-day, of his nature an archaiser, feels, in presence of this formidable fact, almost as puzzled as Caesar or Tacitus when they tried to indicate in Roman terminology the nature of those incipient States, transalpine, further Rhine, or Spanish.

He used one of the short, semantically ugly terms which serve, in place of profanity, as the emotional release of a race that has forgotten all the taboos and terminologies of supernaturalistic religion and sex-inhibition.

The fact that this word has gathered all sorts of doubtful associations must not hinder us from adopting it into the terminology of a science which aspires to understand the working of the supersensible in the world of the senses.

But for a reader who has a full sense of the several languages that exist in English at the service of the several ways of human life, there is, from the mere terminology of official France, high or low--daily France--a gratuitous and uncovenanted smile to be had.

The use of nonreferential archaic terminology served to audibilize the otherwise inexpressable emotions you felt at the moment.

Gallicisms and technical terminology are no longer proclaimed to the peasants, while the artisan is no more entertained with grandiloquent descriptions of the last night of Socrates, or with Ciceronian laudations of the Schoolmen.

In musical terminology this corresponds to transposition into a different key.

I call to mind the specific language of the Treaty Mospheira which calls for experimental contacts in s ence leading to agreements of definition and unequivo terminology, with a view tofuture intercultural coope tions under the appointment of appropriate atevi offic This seems to me one of those areas in which coop ation could work to the benefit of atevi, widening int cultural understanding, fulfilling all provisions of t Treaty wherein .

Treaty of Mospheira which calls for experimental contacts in science leading to agreements of definition and unequivocal terminology, with a view to future intercultural cooperations under the appointment of appropriate atevi officials.

Being a sports agent was - to use computer terminology - a multitasking environment with the capability of performing a variety of services with but a click of a button.

In other words, the learned tone of narratological terminology is to be expected, since it reflects a certain distance from the craft itself.