It's the Word of the Day for January 25th.
Today's word is nomenclature.
Spelled N-O-M-E-N-C-L-A-T-U-R-E.
Nomenclature is a noun.
It's a formal word that refers to a system of names that is used in specialized fields and especially in science.
Nomenclature is also used more broadly as a synonym of name and designation.
Here's the word used in a sentence from Cleveland.com by Roger Roser.
The junior leagues wanted to instill the same type of nomenclature and methods used at the high school varsity level and teach the same type of philosophies.
The word nomenclature has everything to do with names.
It can refer to the act of naming, a name itself, and even a system of names.
You name it.
The term comes to English from the Latin word nomenclatura,
which means assigning of names to things.
One may marvel, for instance, at the nomenclature, that is, names,
of towns in the United States, from 96 South Carolina to Frankenstein, Missouri.
Or one may be required to learn the nomenclature,
the system of naming, of a particular branch of science.
If nomenclature reminds you of a term you heard in biology class, you know what we mean.
Binomial nomenclature refers to a system of nomenclature in which each species of animal or plant receives a name of two terms,
of which the first identifies the genus, to which it belongs, and the second, the species itself.