terminology
Other forms: terminologies
Terminology is vocabulary associated with a certain field of study, profession, or activity. Knowing the terminology is an important part of being able to work in a given profession.
When your nuclear physicist friends start talking shop and it suddenly sounds like they are speaking a different language, they are probably using nuclear physics terminology. Education terminology includes "rubric," "lesson plan," "pop quiz," "term paper," "student engagement." Medical terminology includes "blood work," "CVC," "scalpel," "set." Lawyers sometimes use legal terminology such as "forthwith," "heretofore" and "the part of the first part" to intimidate people they might want to threaten to sue. It works.
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a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline“legal terminology”synonyms: language, nomenclaturetypes:markup languagea set of symbols and rules for their use when doing a markup of a documentSGML, standard generalized markup language(computer science) a standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents; a set of rules for using whatever markup vocabulary is adoptedHTML, hypertext mark-up language, hypertext markup languagea set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documentstype of:worda unit of language that native speakers can identify
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Derived from the Greek suffix -logia, the suffix -ology in English means "the science of or the study of."
Freak the Mighty tells the story of an unlikely friendship between an awkward, lumbering outcast and a physically challenged genius. Together, the two boys become a force for good.