Grybinyk Y. Structural and semantic peculiarities of English geodetic terminology

The thesis outlines the structural and semantic peculiarities of English geodetic terminology. Attention is paid to the analysis of term-formation processes, to the study of structure and meaning of English geodetic terms. The system and structural approaches, combined with a complex methology have been applied to characterize English geodetic terminology and its terminological units, namely, their structure, system and semantic features. In the research the main structural and semantic peculiarities of English geodetic terminology have been determined. Terminology under study is actively developing and proves to be an open system, which except special geodetic terms, includes: common words, scientific and technical terms, terminological units that belong to adjacent professional terminologies. It has been found out, that English geodetic terminology is a well-organized system of terms which nominate the main concepts of this sphere.