Taxonomy vs Abort - What's the difference?
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The science or the technique used to make a classification.
A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
(taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
(obsolete) A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion.
*, I.2.4.vi:
(military, aeronautics) An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.
(computing) The function used to abort a process.
(computing) An event involving the abort of a process.
To miscarry; to bring forth offspring prematurely.
To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.
To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.
(biology) To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to cease organic growth before maturation; to become sterile.
(biology) To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.
(military) To fail or abandon a mission for any reason other than enemy action, at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion.
(aeronautics) To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely.
To cause a premature termination of a foetus; to bring forth offspring prematurely; to end a pregnancy before term.
(computing) To terminate a process prior to completion.
As nouns the difference between taxonomy and abort
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while abort is restroom, loo, toilet.taxonomy
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(wikipedia taxonomy)Noun
(taxonomies)Synonyms
* alpha taxonomyDerived terms
* folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomySee also
* classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontologyabort
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Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) abortus, perfect active participle of .Noun
(en noun)- In Japonia 'tis a common thing to stifle their children if they be poor, or to make an abort , which Aristotle commends.
- We've had aborts on three of our last seven launches.
- We've had three aborts over the last two days.