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taxonomy | academy |

As a noun taxonomy

is the science or the technique used to make a classification.

As a proper noun academy is

(classical studies|history) the school for advanced education founded by plato; the garden where plato taught brown, lesley, ed the shorter oxford english dictionary 5th oxford: oxford university press, 2003.

taxonomy

English

(wikipedia taxonomy)

Noun

(taxonomies)
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See 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 * ontology

    academy

    English

    Noun

    (academies)
  • (classical studies, usually, capitalized) The garden where Plato taught. Brown, Lesley, ed. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. 5th. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
  • (classical studies, usually, capitalized) Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.
  • An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.
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  • A school or place of training in which some special art is taught.
    • the military academy''' at West Point; a riding '''academy'''; the '''Academy of Music.
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  • A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science.
    • the French Academy'''; the American '''Academy''' of Arts and Sciences; '''academies of literature and philology.
  • (obsolete) The knowledge disseminated in an Academy.
  • Academia.
  • A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
  • (UK, education) A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control.

    • Synonyms

    * (society of learned people) learned society

    Derived terms

    * academic * academical * academy figure * Academy of Sciences * laughing academy * national academy

    References