TAXONOMY | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of taxonomy in English

(Definition of taxonomy from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of taxonomy

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We should note, however, that it is questionable to what extent such taxonomies reflect the nature of the underlying psychological processes.
It took a long time to develop ' a systematic, subject-based taxonomy for such a new field of study', as the editors say.
The theory generates a useful taxonomy of practices and theories closely related to, but substantially different from, religions.
The taxonomy of this genus based on classical morphological characters is still unclear and misidentifications are reported.
Thirteen chapters cover taxonomy and distribution, production volumes, ecology and agronomy, harvesting, processing, economics and marketing.
Modern research into contemporary reading practices suggests a possible taxonomy of annotation practice.
Ironically, even though the taxonomy is segmented into elementary categories, it is difficult to find an approach based on these in many produced works.
Personal views (contexts) can be easily derived from or linked to such taxonomies.
By descending the hierarchical tree, we find that there are seventeen leaf nodes in the taxonomy.
His taxonomy of word forms is especially useful and reflects a career-long interest in this kind of inquiry.
The social policy literature is bulging with very diverse taxonomies and discussions of problems with consumer choice programmes.
A taxonomy of manufacturing grasps is obtained by two basic categories, which are defined as power grasps and precision grasps, respectively.
The book concludes with a very long literature list of 63 pages, suitably cross-referenced, covering the biology and taxonomy of solitary bees and wasps.
A review of the origins of mites is followed swiftly by a fascinating discussion of their complex and sometimes confusing taxonomy.
If the taxonomy was confused, the racial ideology was not.
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Translations of taxonomy

in Chinese (Traditional)
分類學, 生物分類學…
in Chinese (Simplified)
分类学, 生物分类学…
in Spanish
taxonomía…
in Portuguese
taxonomia…
in more languages
in Polish
systematyka, taksonomia…
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