Conversion as a term forming way in the sphere of physics
Keywords:
word, language, conversion, noun, verb, physics, forming, linguisticsAbstract
The work is devoted to considering conversion to be one of the dominant ways of term forming in the sphere of physics. Observed is the fact of conversion’s being wide spread in the English language due to coincidence of its noun and verb sound forms. Proved is that terms in the sphere of physics are mostly formed by transition of verbs into nouns at present.
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