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Borrowed from Latin nōmenclātūra (a calling by name, list of names), from nōmen (name) + calāre (call). Doublet of nomenklatura.

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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.
    • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page ix:
      It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.
  2. A set of names or terms.
    • 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide[1], page 4:
      Another major defect of the current literature dealing with the nomenclature of hybrid forms of English is the scant attention paid to the question of frequency.
  3. (obsolete) A name.

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Borrowed from Latin nomenclatūra (a calling by name, list of names).

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nomenclature f (plural nomenclatures)

  1. nomenclature

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nomenclature f

  1. plural of nomenclatura