terminology
n. C / Un. the special words or phrases used in a particular subject or job. You use this when talking about the specific language that experts use to be precise.
n. the body of terms used with a particular technical application in a subject of study, profession, or specialized activity.
Medical terminology can be very difficult for patients to understand.
The legal team spent hours explaining the complex terminology of the contract to the new business owners.
While the underlying concepts were simple, the dense academic terminology made the research paper nearly inaccessible to anyone outside that specific subfield of linguistics.
From French terminologie or German Terminologie and their source, New Latin terminologia, from Medieval Latin terminus (“a term”) + -ologia (“study of”), from -o- (“(interconsonantal)”) + -logia, from Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía, “-logy, branch of study, to speak”).
Uncountable when referring to the general set of terms; countable when referring to a specific system of terms.