different between plottable vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

plot +? -able

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t?b?l

Adjective

plottable (comparative more plottable, superlative most plottable)

1. Able to be plotted or surveyed.

   After a few weeks wandering the mountainous jungle terrain, we gave up our survey and declared the area not plottable.

2. Able to be located on a coordinate system.

   The program limited plottable pixels to the confines of the screen.

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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