controlled vocabulary
noun
1 Education a limited range of words used in teaching a person (now especially a child) to read at a particular level, with new items gradually being introduced as reading skills advance.
2(In information science) a prescribed set of terms which may be used in abstracting, indexing, etc., and which is recognized within that system as having a predetermined set of meanings.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in Classical Weekly.
- Indian ginger
- Indian giver
- Indian giving
- Indian grass
- Indian hay
- Indian head
- Indian hemp
- Indian hen
- Indian herb
- Indian house
- Indianian
- Indian ink
- Indianisation
- Indianise
- Indianism
- Indianist
- indianite
- Indianization
- Indianize
- Indian laburnum
- Indian ladder
- Indian laurel
- Indian leaf
- Indian lotus
- Indianly