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
   • Very little exists in the annals of the interwebs about Tostitos Hint of Lime. Many nights I’ve sucked down crusty mossed fingertips and typed away in a green-out (like a blackout, but from eating too much Tostitos Hint of Lime), searching for a like-minded fanclub, historical taxonomy, or even a...2022 April 20, Mariella Rudi, “Tostitos Hint of Lime has zero lime – but it’s still the perfect chip”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2022
3. (uncountable, life sciences) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

   Synonyms:

   alpha taxonomy, biotaxonomy