Denomination vs Nomenclature - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The act of naming]] or [[designate, designating.
(countable) That by which anything is denominated or styled; an epithet; a name, designation, or title; especially, a general name indicating a class of like individuals; a category; as, the denomination of units, or of thousands, or of fourths, or of shillings, or of tons.
(countable) A class, or society of individuals, called by the same name; a sect or religious sub-goup; as, a religious denomination.
(countable) A unit in a series of units of weight, money, etc
:: What denomination is that money? They are all 50 euro notes.
(obsolete) A name.
A set of names or terms.
A set of rules used for forming the names or terms in a particular field of arts or sciences.
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Denomination is a related term of nomenclature.
As nouns the difference between denomination and nomenclature
is that denomination is denomination (all senses) while nomenclature is (obsolete) a name.denomination
English
(wikipedia denomination)Noun
- She follows the Ahmadiyya denomination of Islam.
Derived terms
* denominationalismSee also
* name * appellation * titleExternal links
* *nomenclature
English
(wikipedia nomenclature)Noun
- It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.
