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noun
The smallest unbreakable element of the study of terminology.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: terminology
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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Synonyms: terminological unit
Antonyms: none provided
History
Analogous to phoneme, morpheme, lexeme, from Medieval Latin terminus (“a term”) -eme.
Across languages
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