Taxonomy vs Optic - What's the difference?
taxonomy | optic |
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.
Of, or relating to the eye or to vision.
* Milton
Of, or relating to optics or optical instruments.
An eye.
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:The difference is as great between / The optics seeing, as the object seen.
*1819 , (Lord Byron), Don Juan , I:
*:how they, / Who saw those figures on the margin kiss all, / Could turn their optics to the text and pray, / Is more than I know
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*:Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ΒΆ ("I never) understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics ."
A lens or other part of an optical instrument that interacts with light.
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As nouns the difference between taxonomy and optic
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while optic is an eye.As an adjective optic is
of, or relating to the eye or to vision.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 * ontologyoptic
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Alternative forms
* optick (obsolete) * optique (obsolete)Adjective
(-)- The moon, whose orb / Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views.
Noun
(en noun)Fenella Saunders, magazine=(American Scientist)
Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture, passage=The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.}}
