"retronymy" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "2012, e-Study Guide for: Integrated Business Communication, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Much retronymy is driven by advances in technology.",
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        {
          "ref": "2013, Peter Bachmann, Michael Köhl, Risto Päivinen, Assessment of Biodiversity for Improved Forest Planning, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Of special interest to terminologists is retronymy, which consists of renaming an existing concept more precisely in order to adjust to a conceptual shift, as will be illustrated below.",
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          "ref": "2015, M. Rogers, Specialised Translation: Shedding the 'Non-Literary' Tag, →ISBN:",
          "text": "What they describe is the well-known phenomenon of retronymy (see, for instance, Ahmad & Collingham 1996). Whatever such consequential terminological changes are called, this understanding of 'gap' is system-related.",
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            "feminine"
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          "word": "rétronymie"
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