📝Glossary — An alphabetical list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge
📝Lexicon — A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a 📝Vocabulary
📝Nomenclature — A system of generating new terms for a particular field
📝Ontology — like a thesaurus, is a kind of taxonomy with structure and specific types of relationships between terms… relationships are greater in number and more specific in their function. They are used in more complex information systems, such as the 📝Semantic Web.
📝Taxonomy — A simple hierarchical arrangement of entities where you have a parent-child kind of relationship.Taxonomy is the simplest variant [of controlled vocabularies] as it contains only terms that are organized into a hierarchical structure.
📝Terminology — Set of designations belonging to one special language
📝Thesaurus — Is a taxomony that includes related and synonymous terms/words, or “associative relationships as explained in The Accidental Taxonomist in a blog post they published on this topic. They go on to say that “This is largely true, and I will add that a thesaurus also must have equivalence relationships (between a “preferred term” and its synonyms or nonpreferred terms), whereas synonyms/nonpreferred terms are merely optional in taxonomies, depending on the taxonomy size
