different between disambiguate vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From dis- +? ambiguate.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?.sam?b??ju?e?t/

Verb

disambiguate (third-person singular simple present disambiguates, present participle disambiguating, simple past and past participle disambiguated)

1. To remove ambiguities from; to make less ambiguous; to clarify or specify which of multiple possibilities applies – e.g., possible meanings of an ambiguous statement – or to invite or require this.
2. (linguistics) To distinguish one word or lexical unit (from a different one which has a similar form).
   • 1967, Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America, vol. 43, p. 619:

     When necessary, the Greek spelling is disambiguated by an appended phonetic transcription.

   • 2016, John Simpson, The Word Detective, Little, Brown 2016, p. 281:

     The dictionary's traditional “readers” have largely survived this transition, too. They find earlier and better uses of terms which computers can't (in the jargon) disambiguate—distinguish from other similar uses.

Derived terms

• disambiguation
• disambiguator

Translations

Italian

Verb

disambiguate

1. second-person plural present indicative of disambiguare
2. second-person plural imperative of disambiguare
3. feminine plural of disambiguato

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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