Definition specifics of the term “Biotechnology”

The article describes the definition of the term as a way of its studying. The study of the definition within the framework of scientific and professional discourse is one of the most significant and actively developing directions in terminology and cognitive linguistics. Analysing the definition of the term “Biotechnology” in English and Russian the author points to the absence of a well-established definition of this term. It confirms the temporal definition of concepts in any science that can be transformed depending on the development of the latter.