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scientific classification
noun
A scheme for the ordering of things such as stellar objects, minerals, forms of life, or personality types according to characteristics that are discernible and testable by scientific methods.
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"Scientific Classification Using Candy" is one of the workshops planned for the institute's first NatureFest.
It was one of the first examples of scientific classification in law enforcement.
Alas, ally is an old term of scientific classification and is no longer included in the entry for murinoid.
Vernacular soil names have been used throughout history and helped provide the basis of scientific classification.
A nosology more specifically provides a scientific classification system for diseases or disorders.
Trees have been grouped in various ways, some of which more or less parallel their scientific classification: softwoods are conifers, and hardwoods are dicotyledons.
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Although scientific approaches to religion in the 19th century discouraged use of normative categories, elements of normative judgment were, nonetheless, hidden in certain of the new scientific classifications that had emerged.
Accounting classifications worked in tandem with scientific classifications to define the seismic event as a site for exceptional governance, to demarcate the temporal and spatial boundaries, and to guide the immediate and subsequent healthcare-related humanitarian responses.
Considerable progress toward more scientific classifications of religions was marked by the emergence of morphological schemes, which assume that religion in its history has passed through a series of discernible stages of development, each having readily identifiable characteristics and each constituting an advance beyond the former stage.
Because these terms impotence and frigidity have developed pejorative and misleading connotations, they are no longer used as scientific classifications, having been superseded by more specific terms; however, both terms remain in common usage, with a variety of meanings and associations (see frigidity; impotence).
Perhaps it is this close correspondence of folk and formal scientific classifications that underlies some of the misconceptions about biological classification and explains why antievolution arguments often include attacks on homology, effectively exploiting the public's confusion between scientific and folk systems of classification.
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