Lexical and semantic characteristics of geology terms in english and russian languages

The article discusses English and Uzbek terminological system of geology in lexical and semantic characteristics. The terminology systems of both languages are dominated by compression types of variance performing compression functions scientific text and compact presentation of scientific and technical information. However, in the Russian-language terminology system, synonymy wider: 67% options in Russian language, 47% in English language. During its formation, the geological term system has come a hard way. Between the state of this term system during its formation and in there is not and cannot be a complete correspondence, evidence of which are heterogeneous in time, sources and principles of nomination terms.