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A naming convention is a convention
Convention (norm)

A convention is a set of agreement, stipulated or generally accepted standards, norm , norm or criterion, often taking the form of a Custom ....
 for naming things. The intent is to allow useful information to be deduced from the names based on regularities. For instance, in Manhattan
Manhattan

Manhattan is one of the five borough of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.With a United States Census of 1,620,867 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles , Manhattan, coextensive with New York County, is the most population density county in the United States, w...
, streets are numbered, with East-West streets being called "Streets" and North-South streets called "Avenues".

Well-chosen naming conventions aid the casual user in navigating larger structures. Several areas where naming conventions are commonly used include:






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A naming convention is a convention
Convention (norm)

A convention is a set of agreement, stipulated or generally accepted standards, norm , norm or criterion, often taking the form of a Custom ....
 for naming things. The intent is to allow useful information to be deduced from the names based on regularities. For instance, in Manhattan
Manhattan

Manhattan is one of the five borough of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.With a United States Census of 1,620,867 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles , Manhattan, coextensive with New York County, is the most population density county in the United States, w...
, streets are numbered, with East-West streets being called "Streets" and North-South streets called "Avenues".

Well-chosen naming conventions aid the casual user in navigating larger structures. Several areas where naming conventions are commonly used include:
  • In computer programming
    Computer programming

    Computer programming is the process of writing, testing, debugging/troubleshooting, and maintaining the source code of computer programs. This source code is written in a programming language....
    , identifier naming conventions
  • In the sciences, systematic name
    Systematic name

    There are millions of possible objects that can be described in science, too many to create common names for every one. As a response, a number of systems of systematic names have been created....
    s     for a variety of things
  • In astronomy
    Astronomy

    Astronomy is the science of Astronomical object and Phenomenon that originate outside the Earth's atmosphere . It is concerned with the evolution, physics, chemistry, meteorology, and motion of celestial objects, as well as the physical cosmology....
    , planetary nomenclature
    Planetary nomenclature

    Planetary nomenclature, like terrestrial nomenclature, is a system of uniquely identifying features on the surface of a planet or natural satellite so that the features can be easily located, described, and discussed....
  • In classics
    Classics

    Classics is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean World; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity ....
    , Roman naming conventions
  • In industry, Product naming convention
    Product naming convention

    A product naming convention is a method of naming products so that customers and industry can understand or identify a product quickly. Use of numbers and letters can help sort out sections or parts of a name....
    s


A naming convention may be followed when:

  • Large corporate, university, or government campuses may name rooms within the buildings to help orient tenants and visitors.


  • Children's names may be alphabetical by birth order. In some Asian cultures, it is common for the middle name
    Middle name

    Many people's names include one or more middle names, placed between the first given name and the surname. In the Western world, a middle name is effectively a second given name....
     to be common for immediate siblings. In many cultures it is common for the son to be named after the father. In other cultures, the name may include the place of residence. Roman naming convention denotes social rank.


  • Products. Automobile
    Automobile

    An automobile or motor car is a wheeled motor vehicle for transportation passengers, which also carries its own car engine or motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels, and to be constructed principally f...
    s typically have a binomial name, a "make" (manufacturer) and a "model", in addition to a model year. Computers often have increasing numbers in their names to signify the successive generations.


  • School courses: an abbreviation for the subject area and then a number ordered by increasing level of difficulty.


  • Virtually all organizations that assign names or numbers follow some convention in generating these identifiers (e.g. phone numbers, bank account
    Bank account

    A bank account is a financial account with a banking institution, recording the financial transactions between the customer and the bank and the resulting financial position of the customer with the bank....
    s, government IDs, credit cards, etc).


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  • Promote onomastics
    Onomastics

    Onomastics or onomatology is the study of proper names of all kinds and the origins of names. The word is Greek language: ????at?????a . toponymy, the study of place names, is one of the principal branches of onomastics....
    , the study of names and naming practices, both in the United States and abroad.
  • The application of unified labeling or naming conventions in ontology engineering
    Ontology engineering

    Ontology engineering in computer science and information science is a new field, which studies the methods and methodologies for building Ontology ....
     will help to harmonize the appearance and increase the robustness of ontological representational units such as class and relation names within the orthogonal set of OBO Foundry ontologies.