Sergevnina Valentina Mikhailovna

The article gives a definition and indicates a difference between the term-word and phrase-term and their place in the terminology as systems. The fundamental difference between such a system and the lexical-semantic system of language in general is on the level of semantics of the opposition, it means on the level of the concepts designated by them. Teaching students translation of technical texts one should focus on methods for the isolation of one- and multi-component terms of the text.