controlled vocabulary
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
controlled vocabulary (plural controlled vocabularies)
- (information science) A carefully selected set of terms – words and phrases – such that each concept from the domain of discourse is described using only one term in the set and each term in the set describes only one concept.
Usage notes[edit]
A member of the set is called an authorized term, or in the context of an index an index term.
Translations[edit]
carefully selected set of terms
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