minimum vocabulary
chiefly Philosophy
noun
(B. Russell's term for) the residual vocabulary of a body of knowledge after analysis, i.e. the set of words (or symbolic expressions) that are sufficient to express every proposition in that field (e.g. mathematics, logic, history, geography, or human experience in general) and such that no word in the vocabulary can be defined in terms of the other words in it; the ultimate object-vocabulary of any field of knowledge or beliefs.
Origin
1940s; earliest use found in Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), philosopher, journalist, and political campaigner.
- grabber
- grabble
- grabby
- graben
- grab handle
- grab (or take) someone by the throat
- grab rail
- Gracchus
- grace
- grace and favour
- grace-covenant
- grace cup
- grace-drink
- graceful
- graceful degradation
- gracefully
- gracefulness
- grace giver
- grace hoop
- graceless
- graceless florin
- gracelessly
- gracelessness
- grace note
- grace of God