Taxonomy vs Asymptote - What's the difference?
taxonomy | asymptote |
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.
(analysis) A straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely, as they go to infinity. The limit of the curve, its tangent "at infinity".
(by extension, figuratively) Anything which comes near to but never meets something else.
* 1860 : Frederic William Farrar, An Essay on the Origin of Language ,
(analysis) To approach, but never quite touch, a straight line, as something goes to infinity.
* 2006 : Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Perimeter of Ignorance
As nouns the difference between taxonomy and asymptote
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while asymptote is asymptote (a straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely).taxonomy
English
(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 * ontologyasymptote
English
(wikipedia asymptote)Noun
(en noun)page 117
- Language, in relation to thought, must ever be regarded as an asymptote .
Derived terms
* asymptotic * asymptotics * asymptotical * asymptoticallyVerb
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Take 2 - Why evolution is true. 25 February 2013
- As you become more scientific, yes, the religiosity drops off, but it asymptotes .