different between foundry vs taxonomy

English

Alternative forms

• foundery (dated)

Etymology

From French fonderie.

Pronunciation

• enPR: foun'dr?, IPA^(key): /fa?nd?i/
• Rhymes: -a?nd?i

Noun

foundry (countable and uncountable, plural foundries)

1. A facility that melts metals in special furnaces and pours the molten metal into molds to make products. Foundries are usually specified according to the type of metal dealt with: iron foundry, brass foundry, etc.
2. The act, process, or art of casting metals; founding.
3. A semiconductor fabrication plant in the microelectronics industry.

Synonyms

• (semiconductor fabrication plant): fab

Derived terms

• type foundry

Translations

Further reading

• foundry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• foundry (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

Translations