different between undulationist vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

undulation +? -ist

Noun

undulationist (plural undulationists)

1. (archaic) One who believes that light is a wave.
   • 1833', William Whewell, Address Delivered in the Senate-House at Cambridge

     the undulationist will conceive that his opinions have gained no small accession of evidence by this exemplification of what they will account for

References

undulationist in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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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