terminology

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terminology

/ˌtɜː.məˈnɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/ UK
/ˌtɝ.məˈnɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/ Atlantic Canada, US
/ˌtɝ.məˈnɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/ Canada, dialectal
/ˌtɜː.məˈnɔl.ə.d͡ʒi/ Australia
[ˌtøː.məˈnɔ̟l.ə.d͡ʒi] New Zealand

Where it comes from

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”).

noun terminologies

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. 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.
countable, uncountable The scientific study of such terms.

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