NOMENCLATURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nomenclature mean? 

• NOMENCLATURE (noun)
  The noun NOMENCLATURE has 1 sense:

1. a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline

  Familiarity information: NOMENCLATURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOMENCLATURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A system of words used to name things in a particular discipline

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

language; nomenclature; terminology

Context example:

the language of sociology

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)

toponomy; toponymy (the nomenclature of regional anatomy)

 Context examples 

It was true, she refined it to "position," but it meant the same thing, and in his own mind the old nomenclature stuck.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This PCA also includes R&D and other activities related to development of standards, including standards for nomenclature, materials, characterization and testing, and manufacture.

(Instrumentation Research, Metrology, and Standards for Nanotechnology, NCI Thesaurus)

A proprietary medical nomenclature of the American Medical Association widely used to report medical procedures and services under public and private health insurance programs.

(Current Procedural Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

Proposed nomenclature divides parapsoriasis into two distinct subgroups, PITYRIASIS LICHENOIDES and parapsoriasis en plaques (small- and large-plaque parapsoriasis).

(Parapsoriasis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A nomenclature committee to standardize the naming of enzymes.

(Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, NCI Thesaurus)

A standard that specifies the nomenclature and shared semantics for a collection of data types commonly occurring in programming languages and software interfaces.

(ISO 11404, NCI Thesaurus)

A unique gene name approved by an organism specific nomenclature committee.

(Gene Symbol, NCI Thesaurus)

In botanical nomenclature, a rank below that of variety.

(Forma, NCI Thesaurus)

It presents information on official nomenclature, aliases, sequence accessions, phenotypes, EC numbers, MIM numbers, UniGene clusters, homology, map locations, and related web sites.

(LocusLink, NCI Thesaurus)