"nomenclature" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /nə(ʊ)ˈmɛŋ.klətʃə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /-ˈmɛn/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈnoʊmənˌkleɪt͡ʃɚ/ [General-American], /ˌnoʊmənˈkleɪt͡ʃɚ/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-nomenclature.wav Forms: nomenclatures [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin nōmenclātūra (“a calling by name, list of names”), from nōmen (“name”) + calāre (“call”). Doublet of nomenklatura. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|nōmenclātūra||a calling by name, list of names}} Latin nōmenclātūra (“a calling by name, list of names”), {{doublet|en|nomenklatura}} Doublet of nomenklatura Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} nomenclature (countable and uncountable, plural nomenclatures)
  1. A set of rules used for forming the names or terms in a particular field of arts or sciences. Tags: countable, uncountable
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  2. A set of names or terms. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (set of names or terms): تَسْمِيَة (tasmiya) [feminine] (Arabic), наменклату́ра (namjenklatúra) [feminine] (Belarusian), намэнкляту́ра (namenkljatúra) [dated, feminine] (Belarusian), номенклату́ра (nomenklatúra) [feminine] (Bulgarian), nomenclatura [feminine] (Catalan), 命名法 (mìngmíngfǎ) (Chinese Mandarin), nomenklatura [feminine] (Czech), nomenklatur [common-gender] (Danish), nomenclatuur [feminine] (Dutch), nomenklaturo (Esperanto), nomenklatuur (Estonian), nimistö (Finnish), nomenclature [feminine] (French), nomenclatura [feminine] (Galician), ნომენკლატურა (nomenḳlaṭura) (Georgian), Nomenklatur [feminine] (German), ονοματολογία (onomatología) [feminine] (Greek), νομενκλατούρα (nomenklatoúra) [feminine] (Greek), נוֹמֶנְקְלָטוּרָה (nomenklatúra) [feminine] (Hebrew), नामकरण (nāmakraṇ) (Hindi), nómenklatúra (Hungarian), ainmníocht [feminine] (Irish), nomenclatura [feminine] (Italian), 命名法 (meimeihō) (alt: めいめいほう) (Japanese), атаулар (ataular) (Kazakh), номенклатура (nomenklatura) (Kazakh), សមញ្ញា (saʼmaññaa) (Khmer), 명명법 (myeongmyeongbeop) (Korean), номенклатура (nomenklatura) (Kyrgyz), номенклату́ра (nomenklatúra) [feminine] (Macedonian), നാമകരണം (nāmakaraṇaṁ) (Malayalam), nomenklatur [masculine, neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), nomenklatur [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), nomenclatura [feminine] (Occitan), nazewnictwo [neuter] (Polish), nomenklatura [feminine] (Polish), nomenclatura [feminine] (Portuguese), nomenclatură [feminine] (Romanian), номенклату́ра (nomenklatúra) [feminine] (Russian), ainmeachadh [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), номенклату́ра [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), nomenklatúra [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), nomenklatúra [feminine] (Slovak), nomenklatura [feminine] (Slovene), nomenclatura [feminine] (Spanish), nomenklatur [common-gender] (Swedish), kangalanan (Tagalog), terimbilgisi (Turkish), номенклату́ра (nomenklatúra) [feminine] (Ukrainian), nomenklatura (Uzbek), danh pháp (Vietnamese)
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  3. (obsolete) A name. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: terminology Derived forms: binomial nomenclature, bionomenclature, chemical nomenclature, Linnaean nomenclature, nomenclatural, nomenclaturally, substitutive nomenclature Related terms: nomenclator, nomenclatory, numericlature Coordinate_terms: glossary, taxonomy

Inflected forms

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        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "nomenklatur"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "set of names or terms",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "nomenklatur"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "set of names or terms",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nomenclatura"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "set of names or terms",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "nazewnictwo"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "set of names or terms",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nomenklatura"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "set of names or terms",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nomenclatura"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "set of names or terms",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nomenclatură"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nomenklatúra",
      "sense": "set of names or terms",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "номенклату́ра"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "set of names or terms",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ainmeachadh"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "set of names or terms",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "номенклату́ра"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "set of names or terms",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nomenklatúra"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "set of names or terms",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nomenklatúra"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "set of names or terms",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nomenklatura"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "set of names or terms",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nomenclatura"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "set of names or terms",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "nomenklatur"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "set of names or terms",
      "word": "kangalanan"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "set of names or terms",
      "word": "terimbilgisi"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "nomenklatúra",
      "sense": "set of names or terms",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "номенклату́ра"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "set of names or terms",
      "word": "nomenklatura"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "set of names or terms",
      "word": "danh pháp"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nomenclature"
}

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