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  1. noun The classification of organisms in an ordered system that indicates natural relationships.
  2. noun The science, laws, or principles of classification; systematics.
  3. noun Division into ordered groups or categories: "Scholars have been laboring to develop a taxonomy of young killers” (Aric Press).

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  • We recommend that you use the category paths and values from our new product taxonomy.The Google product taxonomy is a tree of categories that describe product families, with verticals (Electronics, Home ; Garden, etc.) at the highest level, followed by more specific product families or products within these broad categories (such as Electronics > Audio > Audio Players ; Recorders > MP3 Players).
  • Perhaps some readers of this blog will be electronicially enabled to read about the subtleties in the DNA Barcoding / Taxonomy debate and possibly even fill us in a bit about the implications of Cyber-taxonomy or Digital-taxonomy.
  • In addition to providing means for standardizing taxonomy, our AAI-based approach provides a means to evaluate the robustness of alternative genetic markers for phylogenetic purposes. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • They use a case study method to demonstrated how such a taxonomy might be developed, through a detailed analysis of the offending behaviours and personality characteristics of three well-known offenders: Gilbert Escobedo, Paul Bernardo and Jeffrey Dahmer. —  Psychology and Crime News
  • The semantic base may be as simple as a taxonomy, but this enables automatic integration of concepts that the user finds useful in context: customers, projects, employees, etc. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0
 

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  1. French taxonomie : Greek taxis, arrangement; see taxis + -nomie, method (from Greek -nomiā; see -nomy).

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  1. Prop. *taxionomy; from French taxonomie, taxinomie, and properly taxionomie, from Greek τάξις, orderly arrangement, + νέμειν, distribute, dispense, arrange, later νόμος, a law.
 

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