different between quintette vs taxonomy

English

Noun

quintette (plural quintettes)

1. Alternative spelling of quintet A composition for five voices or instruments; also, the set of five persons who sing or play five-part music.

French

Noun

quintette m (plural quintettes)

1. quintet; A composition for five voices or instruments
2. quintet; the set of five persons who sing or play five-part music.

Further reading

• “quintette” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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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