different between disambiguation vs taxonomy

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?sæm?b??ju??e???n/
• Hyphenation: dis?am?big?u?a?tion

Noun

disambiguation (countable and uncountable, plural disambiguations)

1. The removal of ambiguity.
   • 1827, George Bentham, Outline of a New System of Logic: With a Critical Examination of Dr. Whately's "Elements of Logic, page 88

     Disambiguation — where it is to fix the sense of an ambiguous term. This operation has been termed distinction by some Logicians, and erroneously reckoned as a species of division.

2. (wiki jargon) A page on a wiki containing links to two or more topics with the same name.

Synonyms

• clarification, enlightenment, illumination

Translations

Further reading

• Word-sense disambiguation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Scots

Etymology

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Noun

disambiguation (plural disambiguations)

1. Disambiguation.

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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