Taxonomy vs Cursor - What's the difference?
taxonomy | cursor |
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.
A part of any of several scientific instruments that moves back and forth to indicate a position
(graphical user interface) A moving icon or other representation of the position of the pointing device.
(graphical user interface) An indicator, often a blinking line or bar, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place. Also referred to as "the caret".
(databases) A reference to a row of data in a table, which moves from row to row as data is retrieved by way of it.
(programming) A design pattern in object oriented methodology in which a collection is iterated uniformly, also known as the iterator pattern.
(computing) To navigate by means of the cursor keys.
* 1990 , InfoWorld (volume 12, number 22, 28 May 1990)
As nouns the difference between taxonomy and cursor
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while cursor is cursor.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 * ontologycursor
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Alternative forms
* cursour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- The only other problem is that there's a nagging tendency for the highlight to overrun when cursoring through file lists.
