different between airdrop vs taxonomy

English

Alternative forms

• air-drop

Etymology

air +? drop

Noun

airdrop (plural airdrops)

1. The act of delivering goods, equipment, or personnel by dropping them from an aircraft in flight.

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Verb

airdrop (third-person singular simple present airdrops, present participle airdropping, simple past and past participle airdropped)

1. To delivery goods, equipment, or personnel by dropping them from an aircraft in flight.

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French taxonomie. Surface analysis taxo- +? -nomy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tæk?s?n?mi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tæk?s??n?mi/
• Rhymes: -?n?mi

Noun

taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)

1. The science or the technique used to make a classification.
2. A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
3. (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

Synonyms

• taxonomics
• (science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms): alpha taxonomy

Coordinate terms

• nomenclature
• ontology

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