controlled vocabulary

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Noun

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controlled vocabulary (plural controlled vocabularies)

  1. (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

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A member of the set is called an authorized term, or in the context of an index an index term.

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