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terminology en · NOUN

Pronunciation

/ˌtɜː.məˈnɔl.ə.d͡ʒi/ (Australia)
/ˌtɝ.məˈnɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/ (Canada, dialectal) of the US
/ˌtɜː.məˈnɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/ (Received-Pronunciation)
/ˌtɝ.məˈnɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/ (Atlantic-Canada, General-American)
[ˌtøː.məˈnɔ̟l.ə.d͡ʒi] (New-Zealand)
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Etymology

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”).

Meanings

(countable, uncountable) A treatise on terms, especially those used in a specialised field.
(countable, uncountable) The set of terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms.
- [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:
- 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:
- 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:
(countable, uncountable) The scientific study of such terms.

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ar مُصْطَلَح (terms used in any business, art, etc) · ur اِصْطِلاحات (terms used in any business, art, etc) · sk terminológia (terms used in any business, art, etc) · hi शब्दावली (terms used in any business, art, etc) · lv terminoloģija (terms used in any business, art, etc) · pt terminologia (treatise on terms) · ast terminoloxía (treatise on terms) · ar عِلْمُ المُصْطَلَحِ (treatise on terms) · udm удыскыллык (treatise on terms) · nl terminologie (treatise on terms) · lv terminoloģija (treatise on terms) · nl terminologie (terms used in any business, art, etc) · he טֶרְמִינוֹלוֹגְיָה (treatise on terms) · ru терминоло́гия (terms used in any business, art, etc) · az terminologiya (terms used in any business, art, etc) · km យត្តស័ព្ទវិជ្ជា (treatise on terms) · bg терминоло́гия (terms used in any business, art, etc) · de Terminologie (treatise on terms) · pt terminologia (terms used in any business, art, etc) · ja 術語 (terms used in any business, art, etc) · sq terminologji (terms used in any business, art, etc) · km យត្តស័ព្ទ (terms used in any business, art, etc) · nn terminologi (treatise on terms) · tr terminoloji (terms used in any business, art, etc) · sco terminology (terms used in any business, art, etc) · ky терминология (terms used in any business, art, etc) · uz istilohot (terms used in any business, art, etc) · ca terminologia (treatise on terms) · mk терминологија (treatise on terms) · km យត្តស័ព្ទវិជ្ជា (terms used in any business, art, etc) · es terminología (treatise on terms) · et terminoloogia (treatise on terms) · ro terminologie (terms used in any business, art, etc) · id terminologi (treatise on terms) · tl katawagan (treatise on terms) · sl terminologija (treatise on terms) · hu szakkifejezések (terms used in any business, art, etc) · sq terminologji (treatise on terms) · fi termistö (terms used in any business, art, etc) · cmn 術語 /术语 (terms used in any business, art, etc) · ga téarmaíocht (terms used in any business, art, etc) · sh на́зӣвље (terms used in any business, art, etc) · el ορολογία (terms used in any business, art, etc) · uz istiloh (terms used in any business, art, etc) · udm терминология (treatise on terms) · es terminología (terms used in any business, art, etc) · de Fachsprache (terms used in any business, art, etc) · ca terminologia (terms used in any business, art, etc) · ka ტერმინოლოგია (treatise on terms) · uk терміноло́гія (terms used in any business, art, etc) · be тэрміналёгія (treatise on terms) · lt terminologija (treatise on terms) · ru терминоло́гия (treatise on terms) · ms peristilahan (terms used in any business, art, etc) · uk терміноло́гія (treatise on terms) · cs terminologie (treatise on terms) · nn terminologi (terms used in any business, art, etc) · be тэрмінало́гія (treatise on terms) · ja 専門語 (terms used in any business, art, etc) · tg истилоҳ (terms used in any business, art, etc) · lt terminija (terms used in any business, art, etc) · ms peristilahan (treatise on terms) · hy տերմինաբանություն (treatise on terms) · pl terminologia (treatise on terms) · sh terminològija (treatise on terms) · be тэрмінало́гія (terms used in any business, art, etc) · mk терминологија (terms used in any business, art, etc) · hi शब्दावली (treatise on terms) · fa-ira اِصْطِلاح (terms used in any business, art, etc) · cmn 術語學 /术语学 (treatise on terms) · ast terminoloxía (terms used in any business, art, etc) · cs terminologie (terms used in any business, art, etc) · da terminologi (treatise on terms) · fa-ira اِصْطِلاحات (terms used in any business, art, etc) · et terminoloogia (terms used in any business, art, etc) · sh терминоло̀гија (terms used in any business, art, etc) · sk názvoslovie (terms used in any business, art, etc) · mn нэр томьёо (terms used in any business, art, etc) · nb terminologi (terms used in any business, art, etc) · fa-ira اِصْطِلاحشِناسی (treatise on terms) · sh názīvlje (terms used in any business, art, etc) · de Terminologie (terms used in any business, art, etc) · id peristilahan (treatise on terms) · id terminologi (terms used in any business, art, etc) · mt terminoloġija (terms used in any business, art, etc) · io terminaro (terms used in any business, art, etc) · cs názvosloví (terms used in any business, art, etc) · sv terminologi (treatise on terms) · fa-ira تِرْمینولوژی (treatise on terms) · nb terminologi (treatise on terms) · ro terminologie (treatise on terms) · sh terminològija (terms used in any business, art, etc) · sv terminologi (terms used in any business, art, etc) · ko 술어학 (treatise on terms) · tg истилоҳот (terms used in any business, art, etc) · fr terminologie (terms used in any business, art, etc) · hu terminológia (treatise on terms) · is íðorðafræði (terms used in any business, art, etc) · ko 용어 (terms used in any business, art, etc) · sh nàzivoslōvlje (treatise on terms) · da terminologi (terms used in any business, art, etc) · id peristilahan (terms used in any business, art, etc) · th ศัพท์เฉพาะ (terms used in any business, art, etc) · kk терминология (terms used in any business, art, etc) · km បច្ចេកសព្ទ (terms used in any business, art, etc) · fi terminologia (treatise on terms) · pl terminologia (terms used in any business, art, etc) · ko 전문 용어 (terms used in any business, art, etc) · hi पारिभाषिकी (terms used in any business, art, etc) · ms terminologi (treatise on terms) · bn পরিভাষা (terms used in any business, art, etc) · ja 用語 (terms used in any business, art, etc) · fi terminologia (terms used in any business, art, etc) · sw istilahi (terms used in any business, art, etc) · tl tawag (terms used in any business, art, etc) · gl terminoloxía (treatise on terms) · ms terminologi (terms used in any business, art, etc) · be тэрміналёгія (terms used in any business, art, etc) · it terminologia (terms used in any business, art, etc) · sl terminologija (terms used in any business, art, etc) · ko 전문어 (terms used in any business, art, etc) · sk terminológia (treatise on terms) · tl katawagan (terms used in any business, art, etc) · lt terminologija (terms used in any business, art, etc) · hu szaknyelv (terms used in any business, art, etc) · eo terminologio (treatise on terms) · el ορολογία (treatise on terms) · uz terminologiya (terms used in any business, art, etc) · udm нимкыллык (treatise on terms) · it terminologia (treatise on terms) · gl terminoloxía (terms used in any business, art, etc) · io terminaro (treatise on terms) · bg терминоло́гия (treatise on terms) · cmn 用語 /用语 (terms used in any business, art, etc) · fi käsitteistö (terms used in any business, art, etc) · fr terminologie (treatise on terms)

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