``Terminology is the study of and the field of activity concerned with the collection, description, processing and presentations of terms, i.e. lexical items belonging to specialised areas of usage of one or more languages."
The field of Terminology is not independent as a discipline. Termiology though traced back for some decades got a more theoretical an methodological background in the past years.
Terminology is an interdisciplinary field of research because it is highly influenced by the activities and methods of the areas it serves. In the mean time, terminology is very much influenced by computer science and the possibilities of collecting lexical data by means of computers.
Earlier terminology was a problem of engineers needing concepts for naming new technical items. Now linguists claim it to be another dimension of lexicology and lexicography. Terminology has become a specialized aspect of computational linguistics and information science.