common terminology

collocation in English

meaningsofcommonandterminology

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common
adjective
uk
/ˈkɒm.ən/us
/ˈkɑː.mən/
the same in a lot of places or for a lot ...
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terminology
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌtɜː.mɪˈnɒl.ə.dʒi/us
/ˌtɝː.məˈnɑː.lə.dʒi/
special words or expressions used in relation to a particular subject ...
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(Definition ofcommonandterminologyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcommon terminology

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The complex relationships in such areas require acommonterminologyto be developed and used.
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Acommonterminologyhas been deliberated and agreed upon.
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In order to recognise the complexity involved and to achieve comparability of different cases, acommonterminologyis needed.
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This is reminiscent of how beliefs held by different people are often different (and in some cases contradictory), even if acommonterminologyis agreed upon.
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To avoid duplication, we shall discuss multilocus and sequence space models in a unified framework, subsuming both types of model under acommonterminology.
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Yet, a lot more work needs to be invested in material development, such as textbooks, ideally equipped withcommonterminologyfor all languages.
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Ge et al. address the special problem of finding acommonterminologyin peer-to-peer systems and proposes a method for agreeing on a shared model based on local definitions.
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We must also make sure that manufacturers are usingcommonterminologyand descriptions.
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Thecommonterminologyfor deductions is "stoppages".
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It is unfortunate that these two very different categories of "depression" are lumped together by acommonterminology.
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After all, remuneration is thecommonterminologyin which all conditions and opportunities of employment can be expressed.
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Last year the manufacturing industry delivered 5,146 megawatts (or 5 million kilowatts, to put it in morecommonterminology) of electrical plant.
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This iscommonterminologyfor the start of a race.
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It is important that responders and incident managers usecommonterminologyto prevent misunderstanding.
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The mostcommonterminologyis to use the time of passing from one vehicle to the next, which closely mirrors the way the headways were measured in the past.
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Toward acommonterminologyfor talking about speech and reading: a glossary of the phon words and some related terms.
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Research on the early history of the wheelbarrow is made difficult by the marked absence of acommonterminology.
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To achieve this, the committee decided that it required acommonterminologyand definition of election processes that could be understood internationally.
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In order to describe a greedoid-based condition in which a greedy algorithm is optimal, we need some more common terminologies in greedoid theory.
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