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cenology

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cenology

  1. (axiomatic functionalism) The study of the overall organization and relationships within a system.
    • 1991, Bettina Euler, Strukturen mündlichen Erzählens, page 89:
      Within the Axiomatic Functionalist (AF) approach, Grammar, Systemology and ultimately Semiotics are the parent disciplines of Parasyntax. Parasyntax, alongside Morphology and Syntax, is a sub-discipline of Grammar; Grammar, together with Cenology, is a sub-discipline of Systemology and Systemology, alongside Ontology and Semantics, is a sub-discipline of Semiotics.
    • 2011, James Dickins, Extended Axiomatic Linguistics, page 362:
      Comment: It follows that a cenology (Def. 2bla) which has a cenomics will have only a cenomics; i.e. the cenology (Def . 2bla) will consist entirely of an unordered set of cenomes (Def . 8a5) in opposition to one another.
    • 2023, Elena N. Makarenko, Natalia G. Vovchenko, Evgeny N. Tishchenko, Technological Trends in the AI Economy, page 398:
      To achieve the required quality of treatment and rehabilitation with methods of reduction, phenomenology, fuzzy logic, cognitive modeling, and cenology.
  2. Clipping of biocenology.
    • 1973, Special Publication Dedicated to N. K. Panikkar, page 180:
      The basis of cenology is the sampling survey, of which the plankton programme of the International Indian Ocean Expedition is a fairly typical example.
    • 2012, H.-Dietmar Behnke, Karl Esser, Klaus Kubitzki, Progress in Botany, page 345:
      Cenology and succession stages of forests in Eastern Asia were studied , for example , in Ulmus pumila communities in N Mongolia ( Blažkova 1985 ) , in Abies and Tsuga diversifolia-dominated subalpine forest on Mt. Fuji, Japan (Nakamura 1985), and in Fagus multinervis forest of Ulreung-do, an island situated south of Korea (Jong-Wom and Kim 1988).
    • 2023, James D. Dana, Edward S. Dana, B. Silliman, The American Journal of Science: Vol. XXIV, page 221:
      In order to state intelligibly the working hypothesis suggested by the foregoing facts, it will be necessary to briefly state the conclusions as to the formation of åsar and the determination of river courses reached by the senior author after a practically exhaustive survey of the cenology of the north-eastern quarter of Iowa.

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