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/tˌərmɪnˈɑlədʒi/ Listen

noun

Terminology n.

The doctrine of terms; a theory of terms or appellations; a treatise on terms.

The terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms; as, the terminology of chemistry. "The barbarous effect produced by a German structure of sentence, and a terminology altogether new."

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... punishments were looked upon as tyrants deserving of being put down. Heavy fines were at one time interdicted in England. Sahasapriya is a doer of rash deeds, such as culpable homicide not amounting to murder, to adopt the terminology of the ...

— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 • Kisari Mohan Ganguli

... of view; we have ours. You have your religion and we ours,' said the townsman obstinately. 'And you use words, do you not? You have your terminology; you have your idols, just as we have. If not, then how do you use ...

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... squatting monsters, men, silhouetted against the fierce glow from the doors, move about like puppets on wires—any noise they may make is drowned in the mastering roar of the fire. A worker thrusts a long blowpipe (in glassworkers' terminology a wand) into the molten mass in the furnace and twirls it rapidly. The end of the wand, armed with a ball of refractory clay, collects a ball of semi-liquid glass; the worker must estimate the amount of glass to be withdrawn for the particular size ...

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... of the first up in the morning, and one of the last to retire at night, he sought a change of duty. He became a bandsman, then a stretcher-bearer, and eventually was detailed to assist in a cook-house—in cook-house terminology an 'off-sider.' ...

— Over the Top With the Third Australian Division • G. P. Cuttriss

... accents—one this way, and the other that," answered Margaret, caught unawares. She certainly did not reply in the most correct terminology. ...

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