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Taxonomy vs Semigroup - What's the difference?

taxonomy | semigroup |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and semigroup

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while semigroup is (mathematics) any set for which there is a binary operation that is both closed and associative.

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

    semigroup

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia semigroup) (en noun)
  • (mathematics) Any set for which there is a binary operation that is both closed and associative.
  • * 1961 , Alfred Hoblitzelle Clifford, ?G. B. Preston, The Algebraic Theory of Semigroups (page 70)
    • If a semigroup S'' contains a zeroid, then every left zeroid is also a right zeroid, and vice versa, and the set ''K'' of all the zeroids of ''S'' is the kernel of ''S .

    Hyponyms

    * monoid * group