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Taxonomy vs Residuum - What's the difference?

taxonomy | residuum |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and residuum

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while residuum is the residue, remainder or rest of something.

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

    residuum

    English

    Noun

    (residua)
  • The residue, remainder or rest of something
  • (chemistry) The solid material remaining after the liquid in which it was dissolved has been evaporated; a residue.
  • (fuzzy logic) A binary function from [0,1] × [0,1] to [0,1] which is defined in terms of the t-norm as follows: x \rightarrow y = \sup \{ z , z * x \leqslant y\}, where * denotes the t-norm function and \sup denotes the supremum.
    • The residuum of the minimum t-norm is a function \rightarrow such that x \rightarrow y = \begin{cases} y, & \text{if } x > y \\ 1, & \text{if } x \leqslant y .\end{cases}
  • (legal) The residue of an estate

    • See also

    * (fuzzy logic) relative pseudo-complement ----