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Vocabulary

Summary​

A vocabulary is the complete set of words and phrases that one or more people and/or organizations have at their disposal for reasoning and communicating about any topic. Since they are often interested in specific topics, terminologies may be subsets of their vocabularies.

Purpose​

In order for people (or organizations) to properly reason and/or communicate, they need a set of terms (and a semantics to provide their meanings).

Criteria​

A vocabulary is the set of words and phrases (including terms) one or more parties use for reasoning and communicating about anything they like.

Examples​

  • The set of words that you know is your vocabulary.
  • The set of words listed in an English dictionary is a vocabulary of the English language (of its authoring organization)