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The expansion of technical vocabulary
was aided by everyday prefixes, such as pre-, dis-, un-, and
co-, and suffixes such as -al, -ful, -ous, and –less
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numerical prefixes, such as
bi-, di-, mono-, multi-, poly-, semi-, tri-, uni‑
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metrical prefixes: micro-,
nano-, pico-, femto-, atto-, mega-, giga-, tera‑
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orientation prefixes, such as
anti-, auto-, contra-, counter-, pro-
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geology: Pliocene, Miocene;
Jurassic, Triassic; Silurian, Cambrian; Cretaceous,
Carboniferous
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botany: mesocarp, pericarp;
fusiform, napiform; antherozoid, spermatozoid;
bacterium, sporangium
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chemistry: acetylene,
benzene; oxalic, acetic; methane, alkane; ethanol,
alcohol; chromium, sodium; chlorine, fluorine; nitrate,
sulphate
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The domain names themselves were
distinctive, the majority using -ology, but also -ography,
-metry, -onomy, and -ics:
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