Terminology

Terminology is the study of terms and their use. Terminology studies the "labelling or designating of concepts" in one or more subject fields or areas of human activity. Terms are words and compound words that are used in specific contexts.  Terminology studies among other things how such terms of art come to be and their interrelationships within a culture.

Overview
Work on terminology consists mainly of:
 analyzing the concepts in a field of activity
 identifying the terms given to the concepts
 establishing correspondences between terms in different languages
 putting the terminology onto a database
 creating new terms, as required

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