taxonomy
nounUK /tækˈsɒn.ə.mi/ · US /tækˈsɑ.nə.mi/
Etymology Borrowed from French taxonomie. By surface analysis, taxo- + -nomy.
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 press release.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
The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
- Synonyms
- taxonomics, alpha taxonomy, biotaxonomy
- Derived terms
34 terms
alpha taxonomy, beta taxonomy, biotaxonomy, chemotaxonomy, cross-taxonomy, cybertaxonomy, cytotaxonomy, ethnotaxonomy, Flynn's taxonomy, folksonomy, folk taxonomy, gamma taxonomy, ichnotaxonomy, macrotaxonomy, megataxonomy, metataxonomy, microtaxonomy, morphotaxonomy, numerical taxonomy, ootaxonomy, palynotaxonomy, parataxonomy, phylotaxonomy, pseudotaxonomy, scientific taxonomy, subtaxonomy, supertaxonomy, syntaxonomy, tagsonomy, taxon, taxonomic, taxonomist, taxonomize, zootaxonomy- Coordinate terms
- nomenclature, ontology