Polysemy in Terminology

The question of whether one and the same term always has one and the same meaning or whether a term may have different mean¬ings hot only remains open but also a question which is very often discussed mainly from a critical point of view, we know from the literature that ideally every term should possess one single meaning. Terms should serve to convey intellective information with as much precision as possible. Hence, the tendency towards the monosemy of a term, especially in a science like mathematics, where the scarcity of polyse-mantic words is quite obvious.