Ontology
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In Information science it is used as model to descibe a domain of knowledge with the help of classes, attributes, relationships and some more components.
These component can be found in different ontology languages.
After Gruber ontologies are a "explicit specifcation of a concep- tualization".
Sources
Gruber, Thomas R.: Toward Principles for the Design of Ontologies Used for Knowledge Sharing. International Journal Human-Computer Studies 43(5-6):907-928, Elsevier, 1995.