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Taxonomy vs Stratosphere - What's the difference?

taxonomy | stratosphere |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and stratosphere

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while stratosphere is stratosphere.

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

    stratosphere

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geology, obsolete) Collectively, those layers of the (l)’s (l) which primarily (l) .
  • * 1908 , Eduard Suess [aut.], Hertha Beatrice Coryn Sollas and William Johnson Sollas [trs.], The Face of the Earth (Oxford, at the Clarendon Press), volume 3, chapter 1, page 2
    • So great is the part played by stratified deposits in the structure of the earth’s crust that we might be tempted to speak of the stratosphere'' of the earth in contradistinction to the ''scoriosphere of the moon.
  • * 1909 , Eduard Suess [aut.], Hertha Beatrice Coryn Sollas and William Johnson Sollas [trs.], The Face of the Earth (Oxford, at the Clarendon Press), volume 4, chapter 15, page 546
    • The stratosphere , or younger sedimentary envelope has been formed almost entirely at the expense of the Sal envelope.
  • (meteorology) The region of the uppermost atmosphere where temperature increases along with the altitude due to the absorption of solar ultraviolet radiation by ozone. The stratosphere extends from the tropopause (10–15 kilometers) to approximately 50 kilometers, where it is succeeded by the mesosphere.
  • * 1909 , Scientific Abstracts , A., volume 12, page 208 (heading)
    • Variation in height of the stratosphere (isothermal layer).

    External links

    * ("stratosphere" on Wikipedia)