terminology Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline
    language; nomenclature.
    • legal terminology
    • biological nomenclature
    • the language of sociology

WordNet

Ter`mi*nol"o*gy noun
Etymology
L. terminus term + -logy: cf. F. terminologie.
Definitions
  1. The doctrine of terms; a theory of terms or appellations; a treatise on terms.
  2. 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. De Quincey.

Webster 1913