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Taxonomy vs Thousandth - What's the difference?

taxonomy | thousandth |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and thousandth

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while thousandth is (singular only) the person or thing in the thousandth position.

As an adjective thousandth is

the ordinal form of the number one thousand.

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

    thousandth

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • The ordinal form of the number one thousand.

    • Abbreviations

    1000th, 1000th (also written with a comma following the 1 or, in technical usage, with a thin space following the 1 )

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (singular only) The person or thing in the thousandth position.
  • One of a thousand equal parts of a whole.
  • * 1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , ch. XIV:
    • "Ah, Alan," murmured Dorian with a sigh, "I wish you had a thousandth part of the pity for me that I have for you."

    See also

    * one-thousandth