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taxinomy

taxinomy is the obsolete form of taxonomy.

Meaning of taxonomy

Noun

taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)

  1. The science, technique, or process used to make a classification.
    • Holonym: ontology (relational rather than solely hierarchical)
  2. A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
    • At the petabyte scale, information is not a matter of simple three- and four-dimensional taxonomy and order but of dimensionally agnostic statistics.2008 June 23, Chris Anderson, “The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete”, in WIRED, →ISSN, archived from the original on 08 Feb 2016
  3. (uncountable, life sciences) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

Questions about taxinomy

What is taxinomy the obsolete form of?
Taxinomy is the obsolete form of taxonomy.

Words near taxinomy in the dictionary

  1. taxingness
  2. taxings
  3. taxinomic
  4. taxinomist
  5. taxinomists
  6. taxinomy
  7. taxiphone
  8. taxiphones
  9. taxiphyllin
  10. taxiplane
  11. taxiplanes

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