different between yestersol vs taxonomy

English

Etymology

From yester- +? sol (“Martian day”), by analogy with yesterday.

Adverb

yestersol (not comparable)

1. On the sol (Martian day) before the present one.
   • 2001, Mary Turzillo, "Mars is No Place for Children", in Nebula Awards Showcase 2001: The Year's Best SF and Fantasy Chosen by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (ed. Robert Silverberg), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2001), ?ISBN, page 61:

     But yestersol he took Mother into the old middle-pressure greenhouse (the little one they built when they first arrived here) and got her involved in a long discussion.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:yestersol.

Noun

yestersol (plural yestersols)

1. The sol (Martian day) before the present one.
   • 2003, Sue Vorenberg, "Mars Central", Albuquerque Tribune, 19 December 2003:

     "We'll basically be waking up in the Mars morning, which will be 47 minutes later each day, and uploading our commands from 'yestersol,'" he said.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:yestersol.

See also

• tosol

Anagrams

• Tyroleses

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