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taxonomy | transitive |

As a noun taxonomy

is the science or the technique used to make a classification.

As an adjective transitive is

making a (l) or passage.

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

    transitive

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Making a (l) or passage.
  • * (rfdate) , The Poet :
    • For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive , and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.
  • Affected by (l) of signification.
  • *
    • By far the greater part of the transitive or derivative applications of words depend on casual and unaccountable caprices of the feelings or the fancy.
  • (grammar, of a verb) Taking an (l) or objects.
    • The English verb "to notice" is a transitive verb, because we say things like "She noticed a problem".
  • * (rfdate) , Orthodoxy :
    • Men have tried to turn "revolutionise" from a transitive to an intransitive verb.
  • (set theory, of a relation on a set) Having the property that if an element x'' is related to ''y'' and ''y'' is related to ''z'', then ''x'' is necessarily related to ''z .
    • "Is an ancestor of" is a transitive relation: if Alice is an ancestor of Bob, and Bob is an ancestor of Carol, then Alice is an ancestor of Carol.
  • Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second.

    • Antonyms

    * (l) * (l), (l)

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    See also

    * (l) * (l)

    References

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