One thing that mathematicians do quite commonly is look at the same object in several different ways. The "Fourier Transform" is "Signalidominomorphosis" but it

One thing that mathematicians do quite commonly is look at the same object in several different ways. The "Fourier Transform" is "Signalidominomorphosis" but it is also a linear operator on the vector space of functions, and something more complicated from the perspective of measure theory. For theoretical physicists, it plays yet a different role when applied to wave functions. The disadvantage of naming a thing using one of the things it does, is that it focuses you too much on that one use case. Giving arbitrary names actually frees you to think of the object in whatever way is useful for the problem at hand.