different between apposition vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From Middle English apposicioun, from Middle French apposition, from Latin appositi?, past participle of app?nere (“to put near”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æp??z??n?/

Noun

apposition (countable and uncountable, plural appositions)

1. (grammar) A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both of them having the same syntactic function in the sentence.

   Synonym: parathesis
2. (grammar) The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.
3. The quality of being side-by-side, apposed instead of being opposed, not being front-to-front but next to each other.
4. A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things.
5. (biology) The growth of successive layers of a cell wall.
6. (rhetoric) Appositio, the addition of an element not syntactically required.
7. A public disputation by scholars.
8. (Britain) A (now purely ceremonial) speech day at St Paul's School, London.

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Further reading

• apposition on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Finnish

Noun

apposition

1. Genitive singular form of appositio.

French

Etymology

From Latin appositi?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.po.zi.sj??/

Noun

apposition f (plural appositions)

1. apposition

Related terms

• apposer

Further reading

• “apposition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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

Derived terms

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