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Taxonomy vs Moderator - What's the difference?

taxonomy | moderator |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and moderator

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while moderator is someone who moderates.

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

    moderator

    Alternative forms

    * moderatour (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • someone who moderates
  • * Walton
  • Angling was a moderator of passions.
  • # an arbitrator or mediator
  • # the chair or president of a meeting etc.
  • the person who presides over a synod of a Presbyterian Church
  • (physics) a substance (often water or graphite) used to decrease the speed of fast neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increase likelihood of fission
  • a device used to deaden some of the noise from a firearm, although not to the same extent as a suppressor or silencer.
  • (UK) An examiner at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
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  • (Ireland) At the University of Dublin, either the first (senior) or second (junior) in rank in an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
  • A mechanical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect.