Nomenclature

Research

The system of names and terms used within a particular discipline; consistent nomenclature is essential for reproducibility, since inconsistent terminology across studies makes comparison and meta-analysis unreliable.

Sources

1. Merriam-Webster — nomenclature merriam-webster.com accessed 22 September 2026

Merriam-Webster’s sense 3a is this entry’s: “a system or set of terms or symbols especially in a particular science, discipline, or art”, with 3b naming the standardised international system used in biological classification. From Latin nōmenclātūra, “assigning of names to things”, from nōmen, name, and calātus, from calāre, to announce or proclaim. First recorded 1610.

Merriam-Webster is cited as the dictionary of record: where an entry defines a word rather than a position, a dictionary is the primary source for it. How the term is used in research writing, above, is this lexicon’s own reading.

Related terms

• Abbreviation
• Abstract
• Abstraction
• Academic Database
• Analysis
• Annotation

Rewritten from a truncated AJG archive entry, August 2026.