numerical taxonomy
Biology
noun
The classification of organisms by a quantitative analysis of their similarities and differences, without reference to evolutionary relationships.
Origin
1960s; earliest use found in Systematic Zoology.
- mass-customize
- mass defect
- mass diagram
- mass distribution
- mass driver
- massecuite
- massed entry
- massed estate
- massed start
- mass effect
- Massena
- mass energy
- masseter
- masseteric
- masseter muscle
- masseur
- masseuse
- mass extinction
- Massey, Raymond
- Massey's Cossacks
- mass fragmentography
- mass function
- mass grave
- mass-haul curve
- mass-haul diagram