different between tesseract vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From tessara- (“four-”) +? Ancient Greek ????? (aktís, “ray”).

Noun

tesseract (plural tesseracts)

1. (mathematics) The four-dimensional analogue of a cube; a 4D polytope bounded by eight cubes (in the same way a cube is bounded by six squares).
2. (science fiction) Any of various fictional mechanisms that explain extradimensional, superluminal, or time travel outside the geometry of the physical universe.

Synonyms

• (analogue of a cube): four-dimensional hypercube, 4-cube, 8-cell, octachoron, tetracube

Hypernyms

• hypercube, polytope

Derived terms

• tesseractic

Translations

See also

• tesseract on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mathworld article on the tesseract

Anagrams

• rascettes

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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