Navigation vs. Taxonomy

Navigationnoun

(uncountable) The theory, practice and technology of charting a course for a ship, aircraft or spaceship or (colloquially) road vehicle.

Navigationnoun

(uncountable) Traffic or travel by vessel, especially commercial shipping.

Navigationnoun

(countable) A canal.

Navigationnoun

The act of navigating; the act of passing on water in ships or other vessels; the state of being navigable.

Navigationnoun

The science or art of conducting ships or vessels from one place to another, including, more especially, the method of determining a ship's position, course, distance passed over, etc., on the surface of the globe, by the principles of geometry and astronomy.

Navigationnoun

Ships in general.

Navigationnoun

the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place

Navigationnoun

ship traffic;

Navigationnoun

the work of a sailor

Navigation

Navigation is a field of study that focuses on the process of monitoring and controlling the movement of a craft or vehicle from one place to another. The field of navigation includes four general categories: land navigation, marine navigation, aeronautic navigation, and space navigation.It is also the term of art used for the specialized knowledge used by navigators to perform navigation tasks.

Taxonomynoun

The science or the technique used to make a classification.

Taxonomynoun

A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.

Taxonomynoun

The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

Taxonomynoun

That division of the natural sciences which treats of the classification of animals and plants, primarily by consideration of their natural relationships with respect to their structure or genetic origin; the laws or principles of classification; systematics.

Taxonomynoun

A systematic arrangement of objects or concepts showing the relations between them, especially one including a hierarchical arrangement of types in which categories of objects are classified as subtypes of more abstract categories, starting from one or a small number of top categories, and descending to more specific types through an arbitrary number of levels. An ontology usually contains a taxonomy as one of the important principles of organization.

Taxonomynoun

a classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc

Taxonomynoun

(biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification

Taxonomynoun

practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships