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Taxonomy vs Minim - What's the difference?

taxonomy | minim |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and minim

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while minim is a member of a roman catholic religious order of friars founded by (saint francis of paola) in fifteenth-century italy.

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

    minim

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (music) A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
  • A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1/60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 ?L or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.
  • *
  • A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
  • Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.
  • the minims of existence
  • A small fish; a minnow.
  • A little man or being; a dwarf.
  • (Milton)
  • A short poetical encomium.
  • (Spenser)

    See also

    * crotchet * quaver * semibreve English palindromes ----