Meaning of CLASSIFICATION
| Pronunciation: | | `klasufu'keyshun
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- [n] the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type
- [n] restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people
- [n] the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories
- [n] a group of people or things arranged by class or category
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| | Synonyms: | | assortment, categorisation, categorisation, categorisation, categorization, categorization, categorization, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization, sorting |
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| | Antonyms: | | declassification | | |
| | See Also: | | appraisal, arrangement, ascription, assessment, attribution, basic cognitive process, cross-classification, cross-division, dichotomy, duality, grouping, indexing, reclassification, relegation, restriction, stratification, subsumption, taxonomy, typology | |
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| | Definition: | |  Classification
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Clas`si*fi*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. F. classification.]
The act of forming into a class or classes; a distibution
into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to
some common relations or affinities.
{Artificial classification}. (Science) See under
{Artifitial}.
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| | Definition: | | The arrangement of organisms into groups based on mutual similarity or evolutionary relatedness. |
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| | Definition: | | the ordering of phenomena into groups or other classificatory schemes on the basis of shared attributes (see also type and typology). |
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| | Related Terms: | | antonomasia, appraisal, assessment, binomial nomenclature, biosystematics, biosystematy, categorization, class, evaluation, factoring, family, gauging, genus, glossology, grouping, identification, kingdom, nomenclature, onomastics, onomatology, order, orismology, phylum, place-names, place-naming, polyonymy, sifting, sifting out, sorting, sorting out, species, systematics, taxonomy, terminology, toponymy, trinomialism, weighing, winnowing |
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