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taxonomy | investigable |

As a noun taxonomy

is the science or the technique used to make a classification.

As an adjective investigable is

(chiefly|philosophy|and|science) capable of being investigated or studied.

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

    investigable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (chiefly, philosophy, and, science) Capable of being investigated or studied.
  • * 1869 , Dr. Mann, "Statistical Notes Regarding the Colony of Natal," Journal of the Statistical Society of London , vol. 32, no. 1, p. 3:
    • Indeed it is only possible to learn any thing at all of these really curious and interesting aboriginal people, by cross-examining living men, and ascertaining what they remember to have heard their fathers or their grandfathers say. The period which goes back beyond this very brief depth of reliable and investigable tradition is an absolute blank.
  • * 1954 , James Bates, "A Model for the Science of Decision," Philosophy of Science , vol. 21, no. 4, p. 336:
    • This, of course, leaves aside those in value theory who maintain that values are not investigable by science.
  • * 2003 , J. Andrew Mendelsohn, "The Microscopist of Modern Life," Osiris , 2nd series, vol. 18, p. 159:
    • The Paris population might hold bacteriological and epidemiological secrets, but to Yersin they were investigable and knowable ones.

    Derived terms

    * investigability