Designations
Definitions
Best practices
Data categories
Miscellaneous
100

A designation for a general concept.

What is a term.

100

The beginning of a definition for a noun.

What is the superordinate.

100

A principle that allows us to evaluate our definitions.

What is the principle of substituation.

100

The most important data category that is part of every termbase.

What is the Term data category.

100

The person who performs terminology work.

What is a terminologist.

200

A designation for an individual concept.

What is a proper name.

200

The type of definition that includes all objects in its extension.

What is an extensional definition.

200

The step we take before we define a concept.

What is research.

200

A DC that allows us to pick values from a list.

What is a closed DC.

200

The concept represented by a proper name.

What is an individual concept.

300

A sign used in general language.

What is a word.

300

The aspect that makes a concept different from related concepts.

What is a characteristic.

300

Terms that we don't need to look up in order to understand the concept.

What are transparent terms.

300

A DC that allows us to write anything we want.

What is a open DC.

300

The relation between the concept and its subordinate concepts.

What is a generic relation.

400

A sign used in language for special purposes.

What is a designation.

400

What a definition for a verb does not begin with.

What is to.

400

The process we perform to learn about and document a concept.

What is conceptual analysis.

400

The DC where we list a sample sentence.

What is the Context DC.

400

A verbal representation of a concept.

What is a definition.

500

A term that represents more than one concept.

What is a homonym.

500

The type of definition we are looking for.

What is an intensional definition.

500

An aspect of an object that we do not list in a definition.

What is a property.

500

The DC where we give credit to the author of the definition.

What is the definition source.

500

The thing in the real world that is part of the semantic triangle. 

What is an object.