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Typology vs Taxon - What's the difference?

typology | taxon |

As nouns the difference between typology and taxon

is that typology is the systematic classification of the types of something according to their common characteristics while taxon is any of the taxonomic categories such as phylum or subspecies.

typology

Noun

(typologies)
  • the systematic classification of the types of something according to their common characteristics
  • (archaeology) the result of the classification of things according to their characteristics
  • (linguistics) classification of languages according to their linguistic trait (as opposed to historical families like romance languages)
  • Derived terms

    * typological * typologist * linguistic typology * morphological typology

    See also

    * taxonomy * value domain

    taxon

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia taxon) (taxa)
  • (taxonomy) Any of the taxonomic categories such as phylum or subspecies
  • For a full list of taxa, see under taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * morphotaxon * supertaxon, supertaxa * subtaxon, subtaxa * taxonic * taxonically * taxonicity