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TERM COMMON USE PROFESSIONAL USE
market a regular gathering of an organized gathering for
people for the purchase trading in financial
and sale of provisions, obligations.
livestock, and other
commodities
disk a flat, thin, round an information storage
object device for a computer in
the shape of a round flat
plate that can be rotated to
give access to all parts of
the surface
Compare two examples
(1a) He had a good memory when he was younger.
Він мав добру пам'ять, коли був молодшим.
(1b) A memory and the CPU form the central part of a
computer to which peripherals are attached.
Пам'ять та центральний процесор формують
центральну частину комп’ютера, до якої під'єднано
периферійне обладнання.
The difference between common words and newly created
terms is that the meaning of the term is usually more precise.
Firstly, the term reflects (on average) more number of features.
Secondly, it reflects the more essential features of the concept:
thirdly, it reflects the relationship with other relevant concepts of
the professional field.
Nomination basing on the similarity between features
(external features or functions). Often the object that must be
named has characteristics that immediately stick out: shape,
structure, size, color and so on. If there is an object that has similar
features with the scientific phenomenon or concept the linguistic
form of this object is used for creating a term nomination of the
scientific phenomenon. For example, in aeronautical engineering
there is the term horn. It denotes the final outer part of the wheel
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