What is meant by taxonomy?

Taxonomy is the science of naming, describing and classifying organisms and includes all plants, animals and microorganisms of the world. read more

a classification into ordered categories: a proposed taxonomy of educational objectives. Biology. the science dealing with the description, identification, naming, and classification of organisms. read more

A taxonomy is a classification scheme -- a systematic way of dividing up some larger class of objects (or concepts) into a set of categories. The subclasses are preferably non-overlapping and completely cover the original class. read more