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Taxonomy vs Apparat - What's the difference?

taxonomy | apparat |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and apparat

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while apparat is the soviet machinery of state bureaucratic administration, or a similar communistic structure.

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

    apparat

    English

    Noun

  • The Soviet machinery of state bureaucratic administration, or a similar communistic structure.
  • * 2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), Hitch-22 , Atlantic 2011, p. 184:
    • The second thing to absorb was that, behind all the spontaneity and eroticism and generalized “festival of the oppressed” merrymaking, a grim-faced Communist apparat was making preparations for an end to the revels and a serious seizure of the state.

    Related terms

    * apparatchik * apparatus ----