RELEVANCE VS. IRRELEVANCE OF INDIVIDUAL SEMANTIC PROCESSES FORCOMPUTER MULTILINGUAL TERMINOLOGY
Statement of the problem. The article is devoted to the study of semantic processes in computer terminology. Terminologists of different terminological schools around the world have not reached a consensus on this issue until today, that is, some are convinced of the availability of these processes, others reject them or consider them not to meet the basic requirements for terms (unambiguity). The article analyzes the problem of the admissibility or inadmissibility of semantic processes, such as polysemy, homonymy and synonymy in modern computer terminology. Results. The definitions of the concepts of polysemy, homonymy, synonymy and antonymy in terminology are presented. Theoretical questions connected with the problem of demarcation of the phenomena of homonymy and polysemy and the types of development of the meanings of terms - expansion and narrowing in terminology are described. The main features of the semantic processes in computer terminology are analyzed and the inevitability of the existence of those semantic processes characteristic of the general literary language in terminology is proved. Conclusions. The practice of terminology proves the inevitability of the existence of those language processes that are characteristic of the lexical system of general literary language. The requirement of uniqueness for a term is violated in some cases, while several scientific concepts are expressed in one term. This creates the possibility of forming various semantic processes in the terminological system, including in computer terminology based on a semantic base such as polysemy, homonymy, synonymy and antonymy, which become part of the development of any terminology system.