different between thence vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From Old English þanon + adverbial genitive ending -es, the former from a Proto-Germanic root *þan-. Cognate with Westphalian Low German diëne.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ð?ns/

• Rhymes: -?ns

Adverb

thence (not comparable)

1. (formal) From there, from that place or from that time.

   • Miranda: O the heauens, / What fowle play had we, that we came from thence? / Or ble??ed was't we did?

     Prospero: Both, both my Girle. / By fowle-play (as thou ?ay?t) were we heau'd thence, / But ble??edly holpe hither.

   • 2005, Alpha Chiang and Kevin Wainwright, Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics (4th ed.), McGraw-Hill International, p. 605

     From this we can find the characteristic roots ${\displaystyle b_{1}}$ and ${\displaystyle b_{2}}$ and thence proceed to the remaining steps of the solution process.

2. (literary) Deriving from this fact or circumstance; therefore, therefrom.
3. (archaic) From that time; thenceforth; thereafter

Antonyms

• thither

Derived terms

Related terms

• hence
• whence

Translations

Anagrams

• techne

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

Translations