interclassify

To classify individual items into multiple categories.

Verb

  1. To classify individual items into multiple categories.
    • The average value of Farm products per acre represents a calculation based on a 2-percent sample of farms interclassified by value of products and size of farm, exclusive of farms not classified as to value of products....
    • By the single word "appalls," in a kind of pun, he expresses a metaphorical meaning that interclassifies a sooty church with a coffin with a pall, an impotent faith with a corpse, and industrial evil with death, so that...
    • So far there have been no attempts to interclassify the metals according to their toxicity, but existing waterchemical data suggests that aluminium generally is the dominating metal cation. - 1997, Kjell Weppling, On...

Origin

From inter- + classify.

Forms

interclassifies interclassifying interclassified

Derived

interclassification