taxonomy
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Wired, 14 July 2022 Their new taxonomy, based on an algorithmic analysis of thousands of scientific papers, recognizes more than 10,500 different types of minerals. Quanta Magazine, 1 July 2022 Like in one scene, Stan’s mom puffs on a cigarette and offers a taxonomy of hippies to all the curious children in her car. Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2022 The primary issue stems from the use of bond proceeds when India does not have a taxonomy on green finance—a classification system that establishes a list of green economic activities. Shreyans Jain, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2022 And while many of these dinosaurs may never have occupied the same era, the same time period or even the same location, their appearance together on the silver screen may be a perfect chance to bone up on the taxonomy of the giant animals. Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 9 June 2022 Some companies are offering solutions that use algorithmic identification and segmentation technology to automate this process, thereby mass-creating these pages based on live taxonomy. Iman Bashir, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022 For those not acquainted with Bugatti taxonomy, the model designations present a bewildering assault of alphanumeric nomenclatures. Robert Ross, Robb Report, 4 July 2022 It’s both a fascinating taxonomy of his accidental collection and an intimate look at the meaning nestled within our closets. Kate Cray, The Atlantic, 3 Dec. 2021 See More Word History
borrowed from French taxonomie, from Greek táxis "arrangement, order" + French -o- -o- + -nomie -nomy — more at taxis
Note: French taxonomie was a coinage of the Geneva-born botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778-1841), in Théorie élémentaire de la botanique (Paris, 1813). Candolle divided botany into three divisions (p. 19): "… elle se compose 1.o de la Glossologie, c'est-à-dire, de la connaissance des termes par lesquels on designe les organes des plantes et leurs diverses modification; 2.o de la Taxonomie [footnote: "Mot formé de ταξις ordre, et νόμος loi, règle."], ou de la Théorie des classifications appliquée au règne végétal; 3.o de la Phytographie, ou de l'art de décrire les plantes de la manière la plus utile aux progrès de la science …" ("… it is composed of 1.o Glossology, that is, the recognition of the terms by which the organs of plants are designated, and their various modifications; ; 2.o Taxonomy [footnote: "Word formed from táxis order, and nómos law, rule."], or the theory of classifications applied to the vegetable kingdom; 3.o Phytography, or the art of describing plants in the manner most suited to the progress of science"). A more correct compounding form in terms of Greek word formation would have been taxi- (as táxis is an i-stem), and taxinomy did in fact see some use in the 19th century—though Candolle's original coinage has predominated. His parallel introductions, glossology and phytography, have rarely been employed.
circa 1828, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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