Hypertext Webster Gateway: "nomenclature"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
nomenclature
n : a system of words used in a particular discipline; "legal
terminology"; "the language of sociology" [syn: {terminology},
{language}]
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