Synonymic relations in the English language terminology of biotechnology field

The article covers the study of synonymous relations in English terminology of biotechnology. The relevance of this work is due to the lack of research on the phenomenon of synonymy in biotechnological terminology. The author has identified and analysed the main types of synonymy and their structural features in the studied term system. The author characterises the types and structural features of terminological synonymous associations, analyses absolute / relative synonyms, and proposes the classification of synonymic terminological units according to various criteria. It was revealed that difference in terms of structure come into synonymous relations, among which single-word multi-root synonyms, two-component terms and synonyms represented by terms and the corresponding abbreviation predominate.