genus

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.

   “All magnolias belong to the genus Magnolia.”

2. isim A taxon at this rank.

   “In most cases, at subsequent mentions of the binomial name you can abbreviate the genus with no danger of confusing the reader.”

3. isim A group with common attributes.

   “Recollection is one of a whole genus of effects which are more or less peculiar to the phenomena that we naturally call "mental."”

4. isim A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph.
5. isim Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.
6. isim A type of tuning or intonation, used within an Ancient Greek tetrachord.