different between seismogramme vs taxonomy

English

Noun

seismogramme (plural seismogrammes)

1. (rare) British spelling spelling of seismogram
   • 1962, Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences, U.S.S.R., Geophysics Series, Issues 1–6,page 112:

     In 1954, Benioff analyzed the seismogramme of the Kamchatka earthquake of 1952 and found a phase with a period of 57 minutes . . .

   • 1976, J. B. Kloosterman, Catastrophist Geology,page 50:

     Cover design based on a seismogramme registered on the 18th and 19th of November 1900 during a 'seismic tempest' in Japan.

   • 1979 C. Bernstein, Language:

     To compare a book to a seismogramme is a mistaken analogy in so far as, I know from experience, simple registering is not involved . . .

   • 1986, A. S. Elnashai, K. Pilakoutas, "The Kalamata (Greece) Earthquake of 13 September 1986", in ESEE Research Report, issues 86–89, Civil Engineering Dept., Imperial College of Science and Technology,page 11:

     A seismogramme of the earthquake recorded in Zurich is shown in figure 3.7 . . .

   • 2005, Božo Biškupi? and Tonko Maroevi?, Contemporary Croatian Drawing, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia:

     . . . it acts to the greatest possible extent as a seismogramme of sensibility and experience.

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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