Taxonomy vs Continuous - 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.
Without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening time.
* 1847 , , Ticknor and Fields (1854), page 90:
Without intervening space; continued; protracted; extended.
(botany) Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.
(analysis, of a function) Such that, for every x'' in the domain, for each small open interval ''D'' about ''f''(''x''), there's an interval containing ''x'' whose image is in ''D .
(mathematics, more generally, of a function) Such that each open set in the range has an open preimage.
(grammar) Expressing an ongoing action or state.
As a noun taxonomy
is the science or the technique used to make a classification.As an adjective continuous is
without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening time.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 * ontologycontinuous
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Adjective
(-)- a continuous current of electricity
- he can hear its continuous murmur
- a continuous line of railroad
- Each continuous function from the real line to the rationals is constant, since the rationals are totally disconnected.