classification

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Pronunciation

• (America) IPA: /ˌklæsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

Noun

classification

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.
   • 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865

     I’m using mathesis — a universal science of measurement and order …
     And there is also taxinomia a principle of 'classification and ordered tabulation.
     Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …
     Western reason had entered the age of judgement'.

Related terms

• class
• classic
• classify
• category
• categorize
• segment

Translations

• French: classification
• German: Klassifikation, Klassifizierung
• Italian: classificazione
• Portuguese: classificação
• Russian: классифика́ция
• Spanish: clasificación

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