terminology
/ˌtɝ.məˈnɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.68 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The set of terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "[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."
- "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."
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”).
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌtɝ.məˈnɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
- British English: /ˌtɜː.məˈnɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/