Terminology is the study of terms and their use.
Terms are
words and
compound words or multi-word expressions that in specific contexts are given specific meanings—these may deviate from the meanings the same words have in other contexts and in everyday language. Terminology is a discipline that studies, among other things, the development of such terms and their interrelationships within a specialized domain. Terminology differs from
lexicography, as it involves the study of
concepts, conceptual systems and their labels (
terms), whereas lexicography studies words and their meanings.