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Enumeration Type Naming

If you have a set of related words (e.g. Row and Column or On and Off), how do you find a collective word that describes these words? In particular, what do you call an enumeration?

If I have “Red,” “Green,” and “Blue,” a reasonable enumeration name might be “Color.” The values ​​"On" and "Off" can have a reasonable enumeration name "Power". But how can I name an enumeration that can have the meaning of "String" or "Column"?

Some good answers to "What do you call a row or column enumeration?" - Cartesian and IndexType.

How to find collective words in general - are there any resources there or you just need to know English well / know a lot of words?

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Try using a name that indicates what the enumeration is used for, e.g.

public enum CountMethod 
{
    Row,
    Column
}
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There is software called WordNet, which essentially classifies every English word in a complex class hierarchy and has built-in software for it that can take two words and return its early common superclass (hyper-name in the wordnet language).

In this case, a query for the word red will return something like

red, redness
   => chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour
       => color, colour, coloring, colouring
           => visual property
               => property
                   => attribute
                       => abstraction, abstract entity
                           => entity

The query for blue gives

blue, blueness
   => chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour
       => color, colour, coloring, colouring
           => visual property
               => property
                   => attribute
                       => abstraction, abstract entity
                           => entity

So, you know, the most accurate way to describe red or blue is "color color"

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public enum Mapping
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