technical term
Expert field language
A technical term is specialized vocabulary used within a particular field, discipline, or profession.
Technical terms carry precise meanings understood by practitioners but often opaque to outsiders: The lawyer kept using technical terms I didn't understand.
What counts as technical depends on audience—medical terminology is technical to patients but everyday language to doctors.
- abbreviationShortened word form
- jargonSpecialized professional vocabulary
- acronymWord made from initials
- specialized vocabularyTechnical terms for experts
- nomenclatureSystem of specialized terms
industry speak · neologism · lexicon · meaning · in layman's terms · insider language · trade language · definition · initialism · opaque · lost in translation · learning curve · fine print · glossary · explanation · signification · linguistics · sense
- vocabularyword, words, new words, terms, definition
- termsword, phrase, expression, nomenclature, jargon
- word typessynonym, antonym, homonym, acronym, prefix
- languagelanguage, word, words, grammar, spelling
- dictionariesdictionary, dictionaries, definitions, definition, entries
- language termsgrammar, word, vocabulary, syntax, synonym
technical termplain language
Easily understood communication
plain English · vernacular · everyday speech · common parlance · household word
technical termslang
Informal in-group vocabulary
colloquialism · buzzword · catchphrase · idiom · figure of speech
technical termslang
Informal in-group vocabulary
casual speech · everyday speech · conversational language · plain talk
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