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taxonomy

[tak-son-uh-mee] / tækˈsɒn ə mi /




NOUN
scientific classification
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An experimental musician, writer, publisher and DJ on KXLU, until recently his lucrative day job involved taxonomy and machine learning for Snapchat and Google.

From Los Angeles Times

Givaudan has its own taxonomy of flavors, with eight icons, among them vanilla — pandan’s supposed doppelgänger, and perhaps the one floral flavor embedded in the Western psyche as the default of ice cream.

From New York Times

In “There She Was,” Argetsinger studies the taxonomy of the Miss America pageants from the 1970s to the present, taking in the many small, local contests that lead up to the mother of them all.

From Washington Post

It is such a perfect taxonomy of the Obama arc.

From New York Times

The taxonomy of the files itself is constantly changing.

From New York Times