Taxonomy vs Adamant - 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.
An imaginary rock or mineral of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness.
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An embodiment of impregnable hardness.
* 1956 , , The City and the Stars , p 34
A magnet; a lodestone.
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As nouns the difference between taxonomy and adamant
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while adamant is an imaginary rock or mineral of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness.As an adjective adamant is
firm; unshakeable; unyielding; determined.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 * ontologyadamant
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(wikipedia adamant)Alternative forms
* adamaunt (obsolete)Synonyms
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*Noun
(en noun)- Unprotected matter, however adamant , would have been ground to dust ages ago.
- You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant :
- But yet you draw not iron, for all my heart
- Is true as steel. Leave you your power to draw,
- And I shall have no power to follow you.