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no⋅men⋅cla⋅ture

  [noh-muhn-kley-cher, noh-men-kluh-cher, -choor]
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1. a set or system of names or terms, as those used in a particular science or art, by an individual or community, etc.
2. the names or terms comprising a set or system.
Origin:
1600–10; < L nōmenclātūra a calling by name, list of names. See nomenclator, -ure

Related forms:
no⋅men⋅cla⋅tur⋅al, no⋅men⋅cla⋅to⋅ri⋅al  [noh-muhn-kluh-tawr-ee-uhl, -tohr-] , no⋅men⋅cla⋅tive  [noh-muhn-kley-tiv] , adjective
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no·men·cla·ture   (nō'mən-klā'chər, nō-měn'klə-)   
n.  
  1. A system of names used in an art or science: the nomenclature of mineralogy.
  2. The procedure of assigning names to the kinds and groups of organisms listed in a taxonomic classification: the rules of nomenclature in botany.

[Latin nōmenclātūra, from nōmenclātor, nomenclator; see nomenclator.]
no'men·cla'tur·al adj.
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Nomenclature

No"men*cla`ture\, n. [L. nomenclatura: cf. F. nomenclature. See Nomenclator.]

1. A name. [Obs.] --Bacon.

2. A vocabulary, dictionary, or glossary. [R.]

3. The technical names used in any particular branch of science or art, or by any school or individual; as, the nomenclature of botany or of chemistry; the nomenclature of Lavoisier and his associates.
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nomenclature 
1610, "a name," from Fr. nomenclature, from L. nomenclatura "calling of names," from nomenclator "namer," from nomen "name" + calator "caller, crier," from calare "call out" (see calendar). Nomenclator in Rome was the title of a steward whose job was to announce visitors, and also of a prompter who helped a stumping politician recall names and pet causes of his constituents. Meaning "list or catalogue of names" first attested 1635; that of "system of naming" is from 1664; sense of "terminology of a science" is from 1789.
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Main Entry: no·men·cla·ture
Pronunciation: 'nO-m&n-"klA-ch&r also nO-'men-kl&-"chu(&)r, -'me[ng]-, -kl&-ch&r,-kl&-"t(y)u(&)r
Function: noun
: a system of terms used in a particular science; especially : an international system of standardized New Latinnames used in biology for kinds and groups of kinds of animals and plants —see BINOMIAL NOMENCLATURE —no·men·cla·tur·al /"nO-m&n-'klAch-(&-)r&l/ adjective —no·men·cla·tur·al·ly /-E/ adverb
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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nomenclature no·men·cla·ture (nō'mən-klā'chər, nō-měn'klə-)
n.
A system of names used in a science, as of anatomical structures or biological organisms.

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