different between eventless vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

event +? -less

Adjective

eventless (not comparable)

1. Without events; uneventful.
   • 1933, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, Chapter XXXIII, [1]

     Meanwhile we went on with the lodging-house life—a squalid, eventless life of crushing boredom.

   • 2002, Roger Ebert, The Great Movies, "2001: A Space Odyssey"

     Life on board the Discovery is presented as a long, eventless routine of exercise, maintenance checks, and chess games with HAL.

Derived terms

• eventlessly
• eventlessness

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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