English words for 'The unit of classification in meronomy.'
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noun
- the science of systematic classification
- The study of classification systems and nomenclature.
- A branch of Christian theology that formulates an orderly, rational, and coherent account of Christian beliefs. It comprises dogmatics, ethics and philosophy of religion.
- The place where legal provisions stand as relevant for their interpretation.
- The classification system of a branch of science, especially the classification of organisms in biology.
noun
- A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
- The science, technique, or process used to make a classification.
- (life sciences, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
- a classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc
- (biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification
- practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships
adj
adj
noun
noun
- (mathematics) Gradation.
- (Philippines, education) Ellipsis of grading period.
- The act of reshaping the contour of the landscape so as to provide rainwater drainage around buildings, create lawns and gardens, prepare roadbeds, and so on.
- A rank or grade.
- changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently sloping surface
- the act of arranging in a graduated series
- evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score
verb
noun
- (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
- Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula.
- (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
- (fine arts) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
- Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system.
- (sports, fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.
- The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
- (crystallography) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
- Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality.
- An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.
- Regularity, beauty, or elegance.
- A specimen document to be copied or imitated.
- (geometry) A quantic.
- (UK) Past history (in a given area); a habit of doing something.
- (UK, education) A class or year of school pupils.
- (philosophy) The inherent nature of an object; that which the mind itself contributes as the condition of knowing; that in which the essence of a thing consists.
- A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.
- (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
- The den or home of a hare.
- Characteristics not involving atomic components.
- A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
- Level of performance.
- a particular mode in which something is manifested
- the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something
- an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse
- a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
- a printed document with spaces in which to write
- any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)
- alternative names for the body of a human being
- a perceptual structure
- an ability to perform well
- (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary
- a mold for setting concrete
- the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance
- (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups
- a life-size dummy used to display clothes
- a body of students who are taught together
- the visual appearance of something or someone
verb
- (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
- (transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
- To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
- To put together or bring into being; assemble.
- (transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
- (intransitive) To take shape.
- (electricity, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide. This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but later the plates or grids were coated or filled, one with a paste of red lead and the other with litharge, introduced into the cell, and formed by a direct charging current.
- To provide (a hare) with a form.
- (transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
- develop into a distinctive entity
- assume a form or shape
- create (as an entity)
- establish or impress firmly in the mind
- to compose or represent
- make something, usually for a specific function
- give shape or form to
prefix
noun
- (taxonomy) A level in a scientific taxonomy system.
- (chess) One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number).
- A hierarchical level in an organization such as the military.
- (algebra) The maximum quantity of D-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral domain D).
- (card games) The value of a playing card.
- (typically in the plural) A category of people, such as those who share an occupation or belong to an organisation.
- (mathematics) The size of any basis of a given matroid.
- One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, popularity, or quality.
- (music) In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
- (mathematics) The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor.
- (linear algebra) The maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
- A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.
- The level of one's position in a class-based society.
- the body of members of an organization or group
- relative status
- a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another
- the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army)
- position in a social hierarchy
adj
- Having a very strong, bad taste or odor.
- (intensifier, negative) complete, unmitigated, utter.
- complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
- very offensive in smell or taste
- growing profusely
- conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
- very fertile; producing profuse growth
verb
- (transitive, US) To take the rank of; to outrank.
- (intransitive) To have a ranking.
- (transitive) To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.
- (transitive) To place abreast or in a line.
- take or have a position relative to others
- assign a rank or rating to
- take precedence or surpass others in rank
noun
- (taxonomy) A hierarchical rank between family and genus.
- (zoology) A group of apes who live and work together.
- A socially cohesive group of people within a society.
- (synecdochic) A tribal nation or people.
- (stock breeding) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line.
- A class or group of things.
- The collective noun for various animals.
- (informal, derogatory) A nation or people considered culturally primitive, as may be the case in Africa, Australia or Native America.
- (history, anthropology) An ethnic group larger than a band or clan (and which may contain clans) but smaller than a nation (and which in turn may constitute a nation with other tribes). The tribe is often the basis of ethnic identity.
- A group of affiliated Mardi Gras Indians.
- a federation (as of American Indians)
- a social division of (usually preliterate) people
- (biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily
- group of people related by blood or marriage
verb
noun
- A rank or grade; a stratum.
- A horizontal row of panels within a comic strip.
- (Australia) A (typically forested) range of hills or mountains, especially in South Australia or Tasmania; a mountain.
- Something that ties.
- A row or range, especially one at a higher or lower level than another.
- One who ties (knots, etc.).
- a relative position or degree of value in a graded group
- any one of two or more competitors who tie one another
- one of two or more layers one atop another
- something that is used for tying
- a worker who ties something
verb
adj
- of or relating to taxonomy
- characterized by order and planning
- (taxonomy) Of or relating to taxonomic classification.
- Carried out according to a planned, ordered procedure.
- (chemistry) Of, relating to, or in accordance with generally recognized conventions for the naming of chemicals.
- Treating an object as a system or coherent whole.
- (by extension) Methodical; regular and orderly.
adv
noun
name
- Initialism of Soviet Union: a former country in Europe and Asia.
- Initialism of Syracuse University.
- Initialism of Silliman University.
- Initialism of South University.
- Abbreviation of Seton Hall University.
- Initialism of Stanford University.
- Initialism of Stellenbosch University.
- Initialism of Sabancı University.
- Initialism of Silpakorn University.
- Initialism of Salisbury University.
- Initialism of Stockholm University.
- Abbreviation of North Sumatra: a province of Indonesia.
- Initialism of Shippensburg University.
- Initialism of Seattle University.
- Initialism of Sofia University.
noun
- the science of systematic classification
- The study of classification systems and nomenclature.
- A branch of Christian theology that formulates an orderly, rational, and coherent account of Christian beliefs. It comprises dogmatics, ethics and philosophy of religion.
- The place where legal provisions stand as relevant for their interpretation.
- The classification system of a branch of science, especially the classification of organisms in biology.
noun
- A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
- The science, technique, or process used to make a classification.
- (life sciences, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
- a classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc
- (biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification
- practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships
noun
- (mathematics) Gradation.
- (Philippines, education) Ellipsis of grading period.
- The act of reshaping the contour of the landscape so as to provide rainwater drainage around buildings, create lawns and gardens, prepare roadbeds, and so on.
- A rank or grade.
- changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently sloping surface
- the act of arranging in a graduated series
- evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score
verb
noun
- (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
- Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula.
- (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
- (fine arts) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
- Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system.
- (sports, fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.
- The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
- (crystallography) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
- Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality.
- An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.
- Regularity, beauty, or elegance.
- A specimen document to be copied or imitated.
- (geometry) A quantic.
- (UK) Past history (in a given area); a habit of doing something.
- (UK, education) A class or year of school pupils.
- (philosophy) The inherent nature of an object; that which the mind itself contributes as the condition of knowing; that in which the essence of a thing consists.
- A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.
- (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
- The den or home of a hare.
- Characteristics not involving atomic components.
- A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
- Level of performance.
- a particular mode in which something is manifested
- the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something
- an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse
- a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
- a printed document with spaces in which to write
- any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)
- alternative names for the body of a human being
- a perceptual structure
- an ability to perform well
- (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary
- a mold for setting concrete
- the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance
- (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups
- a life-size dummy used to display clothes
- a body of students who are taught together
- the visual appearance of something or someone
verb
- (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
- (transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
- To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
- To put together or bring into being; assemble.
- (transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
- (intransitive) To take shape.
- (electricity, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide. This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but later the plates or grids were coated or filled, one with a paste of red lead and the other with litharge, introduced into the cell, and formed by a direct charging current.
- To provide (a hare) with a form.
- (transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
- develop into a distinctive entity
- assume a form or shape
- create (as an entity)
- establish or impress firmly in the mind
- to compose or represent
- make something, usually for a specific function
- give shape or form to
noun
- (taxonomy) A level in a scientific taxonomy system.
- (chess) One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number).
- A hierarchical level in an organization such as the military.
- (algebra) The maximum quantity of D-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral domain D).
- (card games) The value of a playing card.
- (typically in the plural) A category of people, such as those who share an occupation or belong to an organisation.
- (mathematics) The size of any basis of a given matroid.
- One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, popularity, or quality.
- (music) In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
- (mathematics) The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor.
- (linear algebra) The maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
- A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.
- The level of one's position in a class-based society.
- the body of members of an organization or group
- relative status
- a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another
- the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army)
- position in a social hierarchy
adj
- Having a very strong, bad taste or odor.
- (intensifier, negative) complete, unmitigated, utter.
- complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
- very offensive in smell or taste
- growing profusely
- conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
- very fertile; producing profuse growth
verb
- (transitive, US) To take the rank of; to outrank.
- (intransitive) To have a ranking.
- (transitive) To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.
- (transitive) To place abreast or in a line.
- take or have a position relative to others
- assign a rank or rating to
- take precedence or surpass others in rank
noun
- (taxonomy) A hierarchical rank between family and genus.
- (zoology) A group of apes who live and work together.
- A socially cohesive group of people within a society.
- (synecdochic) A tribal nation or people.
- (stock breeding) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line.
- A class or group of things.
- The collective noun for various animals.
- (informal, derogatory) A nation or people considered culturally primitive, as may be the case in Africa, Australia or Native America.
- (history, anthropology) An ethnic group larger than a band or clan (and which may contain clans) but smaller than a nation (and which in turn may constitute a nation with other tribes). The tribe is often the basis of ethnic identity.
- A group of affiliated Mardi Gras Indians.
- a federation (as of American Indians)
- a social division of (usually preliterate) people
- (biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily
- group of people related by blood or marriage
verb
noun
- A rank or grade; a stratum.
- A horizontal row of panels within a comic strip.
- (Australia) A (typically forested) range of hills or mountains, especially in South Australia or Tasmania; a mountain.
- Something that ties.
- A row or range, especially one at a higher or lower level than another.
- One who ties (knots, etc.).
- a relative position or degree of value in a graded group
- any one of two or more competitors who tie one another
- one of two or more layers one atop another
- something that is used for tying
- a worker who ties something
verb
noun
name
- Initialism of Soviet Union: a former country in Europe and Asia.
- Initialism of Syracuse University.
- Initialism of Silliman University.
- Initialism of South University.
- Abbreviation of Seton Hall University.
- Initialism of Stanford University.
- Initialism of Stellenbosch University.
- Initialism of Sabancı University.
- Initialism of Silpakorn University.
- Initialism of Salisbury University.
- Initialism of Stockholm University.
- Abbreviation of North Sumatra: a province of Indonesia.
- Initialism of Shippensburg University.
- Initialism of Seattle University.
- Initialism of Sofia University.
adj
adj
noun
adj
- of or relating to taxonomy
- characterized by order and planning
- (taxonomy) Of or relating to taxonomic classification.
- Carried out according to a planned, ordered procedure.
- (chemistry) Of, relating to, or in accordance with generally recognized conventions for the naming of chemicals.
- Treating an object as a system or coherent whole.
- (by extension) Methodical; regular and orderly.