terminology
pronunciation
How to pronounce terminology in British English:
UK [ˌtɜːmɪˈnɒlədʒi]
How to pronounce terminology in American English:
US [ˌtɜːrmɪˈnɑːlədʒi]
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- Noun:
- a system of words used in a particular discipline
Word Origin
- terminology (n.)
- 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. Decandolle and others use the term Glossology instead of Terminology, to avoid the blemish of a word compounded of two parts taken from different languages. The convenience of treating the termination ology (and a few other parts of compounds) as not restricted to Greek combinations, is so great, that I shall venture, in these cases, to disregard this philological scruple. [William Whewell, "The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences," 1847]
Example
- 1. Let 's review the terminology of oop in scala .
- 2. During the 1960s , the rapidly expanding beat culture underwent a transformation : the beat generation gave way to the sixties counterculture , which was accompanied by a shift in public terminology from " beatnik " to " hippie . "
- 3. One type is quasi-official terminology .
- 4. That tedious terminology doesn 't apply to leonardo .
- 5. To avoid that trap let me propose the following terminology .