systematics
/sˌɪstəmˈætɪks/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.57 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The classification system of a branch of science, especially the classification of organisms in biology.
Uncountable
noun
A branch of Christian theology that formulates an orderly, rational, and coherent account of Christian beliefs. It comprises dogmatics, ethics and philosophy of religion.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Systematics is intended to be the study of "qualitative" and structural aspects of all things in the universe; and if feasible, is designed to absorb eventually the "quantitative approach" of mathematics toward human and physical worlds as well. It is hoped that systematics will be able to develop a quantitative field and thus to enable it to incorporate mathematics into its realm of studies some time in the future."
- "Trees are the central objects of systematic analysis. Taxa are ordered, characters explained, and hypotheses tested on trees. Since systematics informs and draws on other areas of science, there is a diversity of terminology for trees and their components."
- "Systematics is an effort to understand those specifically theological affirmations that the theologian holds to be true and so regards as doctrines."
- "The seventh functional specialty, systematics, is concerned with promoting an understanding of the realitites affirmed in the previous specialty, doctrines."
- "Not exegesis itself, then, but biblical theology, provides the material for systematics .... Bliblical theology is not, then, a rival of systematics; it is not even a parallel product of the same body of facts, provided by exegesis; it is the basis and source of systematics."
- "Different kinds of systematic interpretation of statutes affect each other. Construction of a statutory provision depends at the same time on interpretation of other provisions, systematics of the statute, conceptual analysis and theories formulated in legal dogmatics."
Etymology
Etymology tree English systematic Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic Old English -as Middle English -es English -s English -ics English systematics From systematic + -ics.