different between nerdcore vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

nerd +? -core

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n??d?k??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?n?d?k??/

Noun

nerdcore (uncountable)

1. (music, humorous) An intentionally nerdy style of hip-hop music.
   • 2008, GameAxis Unwired magazine (July 2008)

     A nerdcore track would take loop samples not from popular industrial tracks, but from the synthesizers of a popular NES game like Dig Dug…
2. (slang, chiefly attributive) The most dedicated nerds, especially in terms of computer ability.
   • 2007, HWM magazine (December 2007)

     We're tech reviewers, not nerdcore programmers…

   • 2008, Windows Vista magazine (Winter 2008)

     But it takes the right kind of noodle to make a great gaming rig worthy of the “nerdcore elite” (and we mean that in a good way) without spending a fortune.

See also

• geeksta

Anagrams

• cornered

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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