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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Terminology \Ter'mi*nol"o*gy\, noun [L. terminus term + -logy: cf. F. terminologie.]
1. The doctrine of terms; a theory of terms or appellations; a treatise on terms.
2. The terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms; as, the terminology of chemistry.
The barbarous effect produced by a German structure of sentence, and a terminology altogether new. --De Quincey.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
terminology
noun: a system of words used in a particular discipline; "legal terminology"; "the language of sociology" [syn: {nomenclature}, {language}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "terminology": antonomasia, argot, binomial nomenclature, biosystematics, biosystematy, cant, class, classification, dictionary, family, gazetteer, genus, gibberish, glossary, glossology, gobbledygook, gradus, jargon, kingdom, language, lexicon, lingo, locutions, nomenclator, nomenclature, onomastics, onomatology, order, orismology, palaver, phraseology, phrasing, phylum, place-names, place-naming, polyonymy, promptorium, shoptalk, species, systematics, taxonomy, terms, thesaurus, toponymy, trinomialism, vocabulary, word list, wording, words
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