Terminology Meaning
/ˌtɜː.məˈnɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA treatise on terms, especially those used in a specialised field.
nounThe set of terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms.
Sentence Examples
Each science has its own terminology.
Railway workers have their own particular terminology.
This is no time to quibble over terminology.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The professor introduced new ____ related to quantum physics in the lecture.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The medical student had to learn a lot of complex ____ before she could understand the research papers today.
Word Origin & History
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”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Ad for advertisement is struggling hard for general recognition; some of its compounds, e. g., ad-writer, want-ad, display-ad, ad-card, ad-rate, column-ad and ad-man, are already accepted in technical terminology."
— [1921 [1919], H. L. Mencken, chapter 27, in The American Language, 2nd edition, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, →OCLC:
"[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 biological terminology, multiplying."
— 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
"Language is always changing — but it shouldn’t become inflexible, especially when new terminologies, in the name of inclusion, sometimes wind up making others feel excluded."
— 2022 October 23, Pamela Paul, “Let’s Say Gay”, in The New York Times:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The professor introduced new ____ related to quantum physics in the lecture.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The medical student had to learn a lot of complex ____ before she could understand the research papers today.