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NOMENCLATURE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A system of words used to name things in a particular discipline
Example:
the language of sociology
Synonyms:
language; nomenclature; terminology
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("nomenclature" is a kind of...):
word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nomenclature"):
markup language (a set of symbols and rules for their use when doing a markup of a document)