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taxonomy

taxonomy

9 6.7
A system that organizes information into groups and levels to make it easier to find
  • noun
  • /tækˈsɑːnəmi/
  • Specialized
translation icon : taxonomía
  • When teachers develop comprehension questions and activities, Bloom's Taxonomy should be considered (Anderson et al., 2001).
  • revised taxonomy
  • educational taxonomy
  • accounting taxonomy

So we, we then want these, we want a taxonomy that tells us what something is and what something isn't.

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Examples

  • Each literature item was assigned to a specific taxonomy classification by major subject content and by dimension.

    Academic text (1991)
  • In the library, the taxonomy helps organize books by genre and subject for easier access.

  • So you have this complex taxonomy of mental world and and within that framework we understand phenomena.

  • However, revision of the original taxonomy did not occur for many years.

    Academic text (2013)
  • The upper three levels of the taxonomy served to identify higher-order thinking skills for teachers.

    Academic text (2013)
  • Frequent changes in diagnostic taxonomies made it difficult to track mortality trajectories over the 20th century.

    Academic text (2013)
  • The list should not be regarded as an exhaustive taxonomy but as an open-ended catalog.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Moreover, we see definite parallels between this taxonomy and the Thinking/Feeling and dimensions of the MBTI.

    Academic text (1992)
  • The Framework's vertical axis incorporates Bloom's Taxonomy, which delineates cognitive processes from the lowest order to the highest.

    Academic text (2013)
  • The researchers created a detailed taxonomy to classify various species of plants and animals.

Synonyms

classification
vstaxonomy
19 3.7

The process of putting things into groups by shared features

is the organized system rather than just the act of grouping
3 3.9

A way of arranging things into groups by their similar features

is a structured scheme usually hierarchical for organizing topics and metadata
typology
vstaxonomy
  • Specialized
2 8.0

A study that groups things into common kinds

focuses on a formal system for organizing metadata rather than type study
hierarchical classification system
vstaxonomy
  • Specialized
6.7

A way to arrange things in levels from broad to specific

is broader and often hierarchical but applies widely to metadata and cataloging

How Complex

ontology
  • Specialized
6 8.9
knowledge base
  • Specialized
7 3.4
taxonomy
  • Specialized
9 6.7
concordance
  • Specialized
1 8.6

Surface Forms

taxonomy singular
taxonomies plural

Morphology

taxonomy = taxon (semi-transparent) = taxon + omy

Built from technical combining forms ('taxo-' + '-nomy'); the structure signals a classification system but the roots are specialized.

Etymology

The word taxonomy comes from Greek parts taxis 'arrangement' and -nomy 'system' or 'law', like in astronomy, so it means a set of rules for putting things in order. That's why a taxonomy for a website, library, or catalog is an organized system of groups and levels that helps people find items.