classification

The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes.

Noun

  1. The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes.
    • Near-synonyms: categorization, classifying, categorizing, typing, sorting
    • On those remote pages it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs,...
    • 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN I’m using mathesis — a universal science of measurement and order … And there is also taxinomia a principle of 'classification' and...

    Synonyms: categorization classifying categorizing typing sorting

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁-der. Proto-Italic *klāssis Latin classislbor. French classe Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-fakāō Latin -ficōder. French -ifier French classifier Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ation Middle French -ation French -ation French classificationbor. English classification Borrowed from French classification.

Forms

classifications

Related

class classic classify segment

Derived

autoclassification classificational classificationism classificationist classification scheme classification society classification yard declassification ethnoclassification general classification Goldschmidt classification interclassification Keros classification Köppen climate classification microclassification military load classification misclassification multiclassification nonclassification overclassification phyloclassification points classification preclassification reclassification