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vo·cab·u·lar·y [ voh-kab-yuh-ler-ee ]
Definitions related to vocabulary:
  • Collection of words or phrases employed by a language, group, individual or work in a field of knowledge.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Terms that function in general reference to concepts that apply over a variety of languages are words, and their totality is a vocabulary. See also controlled vocabulary, terminology.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
  • The collection of words used by, understood by, or available for use by a person or group.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • The sum or the stock of words used by a language, a group, or an individual. (From Webster, 3d ed)
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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