Taxonomy vs Mediant - What's the difference?
taxonomy | mediant |
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.
(music) The third degree of the diatonic scale.
(mathematics) A rational number whose numerator is the sum of the numerators of two other given rational numbers and whose denominator is the sum of the denominators of those same two other rational numbers.
As nouns the difference between taxonomy and mediant
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while mediant is (music) the third degree of the diatonic scale.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 * ontologymediant
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(wikipedia mediant)Noun
(en noun)- For any tangent pair of Ford circles corresponding to rational numbers r'' and ''s'', the Ford circle tangent to both of them corresponds to the rational number which is the mediant of ''r'' and ''s .