controlled vocabulary

English

Noun

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

A member of the set is called authorized term.

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