| - Complex terms (14%): backbone - frame; bellcote - structure for hanging bells; cesspool - sewer / cesspool; cardboard - cardboard; clearcole - primer; claydait - expanded clay; bluestone - copper sulfate; eggbox - apartment building; causeway - paved path; drawbridge - drawbridge; beautyboard - decorative plywood lined with paper plastic. Compound terms are terms formed by compounding. Composition is a way of word formation common to all Indo-European languages, in which a new word is formed by combining the stems of two or, less often, more words. Composition is one of the ancient ways of forming words, preserved in many languages, including English, and productive at the present stage of linguistic development. Compound words form various structural types, which are based on the morphological nature of the components of a compound word and the way they are combined67.
A complex term is characterized by structural integrity, and its components are so firmly connected that the term is often perceived as an independent unit. Term elements in its composition lose their lexical independence, and the whole complex acquires a single meaning, and the first term element denotes a constant property that gives the whole term a new meaning68. Despite the fact that the prevalence of complex terms of various types is a common distinctive feature of the style of scientific literature, in the terminology system we are studying, the number of such terms is small. Among the complex terms, we identified another category
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