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Taxonomy vs Diacritic - What's the difference?

taxonomy | diacritic |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and diacritic

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while diacritic is a special mark added to a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning.

As an adjective diacritic is

distinguishing.

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

    diacritic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • distinguishing
  • (orthography, not comparable) Denoting a distinguishing mark applied to a letter or character.

    • Synonyms

    * diacritical

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A special mark added to a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning.

    • Synonyms

    * accent * diacritical mark

    Derived terms

    * diacritical

    Hyponyms

    * cedilla * diaeresis * * tilde * umlaut

    See also

    * ("diacritic" on Wikipedia)

    External links

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