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The functioning of synonymy and variability in computer terminology have been examined in the article. Types of synonymous pairs and variant forms have been analyzed, the character of the synonymous relations between the terms of this branch have been reviewed. The investigation enables to reveal the peculiarities of the synonymy and variability in modern computer terminology, to follow the development tendency of these phenomenon, and contributes to the observation of ways and means of normalization of synonymous terms and variants.

The article examines the processes of modeling the nomenа of the trucking industry, in particular the nomenclatures of vehicles of the abbreviation-digital form and the nomenа of the onim type. Examples of alternative commercial and technical nomenclature, i. e. quasi-nomena – wrongly indicative nomenclature units that do not display any essential characteristics of the designated scientific and technical realia are considered.