Taxonomy vs Conditional - What's the difference?
taxonomy | conditional |
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.
(grammar) A conditional sentence; a statement that depends on a condition being true or false.
(grammar) The conditional mood.
(logic) A statement that one sentence is true if another is.
* L. H. Atwater
(computing, programming) An instruction that branches depending on the truth of a condition at that point.
(obsolete) A limitation.
Limited by a condition.
* Bishop Warburton
(logic) Stating that one sentence is true if another is.
* Whately
(grammar) Expressing a condition or supposition.
As nouns the difference between taxonomy and conditional
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while conditional is (grammar) a conditional sentence; a statement that depends on a condition being true or false.As an adjective conditional is
limited by a condition.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 * ontologyconditional
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Alternative forms
* conditionall (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- "A implies B" is a conditional .
- Disjunctives may be turned into conditionals .
if
andwhile
are conditionals in some programming languages.
- (Francis Bacon)
Synonyms
* (in logic) if-then statement; material conditionalMeronyms
* (in logic) antecedent * (in logic) consequentAdjective
(-)- I made my son a conditional promise: I would buy him a bike if he kept his room tidy.
- Every covenant of God with man may justly be made (as in fact it is made) with this conditional punishment annexed and declared.
- "A implies B" is a conditional statement.
- A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another.
- a conditional word, mode, or tense