Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A system of names used in an art or science.
- noun The system or procedure of assigning names to groups of organisms as part of a taxonomic classification.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name.
- noun A system of names; the systematic naming of things; specifically, the names of things in any art or seience, or the whole vocabulary of names or technical terms which are appropriated to any particular branch of science: as, the nomenclature of botany or of chemistry. Compare
terminology . - noun A glossary, vocabulary, or dictionary.
- noun Synonyms Dictionary, Glossary, etc. See
vocabulary .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A name.
- noun rare A vocabulary, dictionary, or glossary.
- noun The technical names used in any particular branch of science or art, or by any school or individual
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A name.
- noun A set of names or terms.
- noun A set of rules used for forming the names or terms in a particular field of arts or sciences.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I think the preferred nomenclature is “Fun Size ™ Debate”.
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The accepted nomenclature is “African-American lanterns”
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On the whole, the nomenclature is pretty straightforward.
Miss Manners washingtonpost.com 2010
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I think the “Quebecois” nomenclature is an American or even British thing.
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His nomenclature is borrowed from his selected exposure via media to the Afghan chadri, which is almost never worn outside of Afghanistan or neighbouring countries.
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His nomenclature is borrowed from his selected exposure via media to the Afghan chadri, which is almost never worn outside of Afghanistan or neighbouring countries.
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Does anyone believe that changing the nomenclature is going to change the result?
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Why throw in nomenclature about triples and predicates and flavors?
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I think the “Quebecois” nomenclature is an American or even British thing.
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He used their initials translated into musical notation, too: H (B natural in German nomenclature), F, A and B (B flat).
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