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

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky