Taxonomy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The classification of organisms in an ordered system that indicates natural relationships.
  • n. The science, laws, or principles of classification; systematics.
  • n. Division into ordered groups or categories: "Scholars have been laboring to develop a taxonomy of young killers” ( Aric Press).
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • n. A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • n. The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. That division of the natural sciences which treats of the classification of animals and plants, primarily by consideration of their natural relationships with respect to their structure or genetic origin; the laws or principles of classification; systematics.
  • n. A systematic arrangement of objects or concepts showing the relations between them, especially one including a hierarchical arrangement of types in which categories of objects are classified as subtypes of more abstract categories, starting from one or a small number of top categories, and descending to more specific types through an arbitrary number of levels. An ontology usually contains a taxonomy as one of the important principles of organization.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The laws and principles of taxology, or their application to the classifying of objects of natural history; that department of science which treats of classification; the practice of classifying according to certain principles.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification
  • n. practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships
  • n. a classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    categorisation    compartmentalization    compartmentalisation    assortment    classification   
    Variant
    ontology   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    systematics    alpha taxonomy   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    phylogeny    tesseract    crystallinity    zookeeper    biochemistry   
     
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