nomenclature
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From Latin nomenclatura (“a calling by name, list of names”), from nomen (“name”) + calare (“call”)
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nomenclature (countable and uncountable; plural nomenclatures)
- (obsolete) A name.
- A set of names or terms.
- A set of rules used for forming the names or terms in a particular field of arts or sciences.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page ix
- It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page ix
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set of names or terms
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- nomenclature in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- nomenclature in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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nomenclature f.
- Plural form of nomenclatura.
