different between quinquennially vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From quinquennial +? -ly.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kw???kw?n??li/

Adverb

quinquennially (not comparable)

1. Every five years.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 9:

     The clergy's affairs, for example, were regulated by an Assembly of the Clergy, meeting quinquennially to deal with matters of common concern.

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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