Dictionary Definition
classification
Noun
1 the act of distributing things into classes or
categories of the same type [syn: categorization, categorisation, compartmentalization,
compartmentalisation,
assortment]
2 a group of people or things arranged by class
or category [syn: categorization, categorisation]
3 the basic cognitive process of arranging into
classes or categories [syn: categorization, categorisation, sorting]
4 restriction imposed by the government on
documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized
people [ant: declassification]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -eɪʃǝn
Etymology
From classification.Noun
Derived terms
Translations
act of forming into classes
- Bulgarian: класификация (klasifikátsija)
- Chinese: 分類, 分类 (fēnlèi)
- Croatian: klasifikacija, razredba
- Czech: klasifikace
- Dutch: classificatie
- Finnish: luokittelu
- French: classification
- German: Klassifikation
- Greek: ταξινόμηση (taksinómisi)
- Italian: classificazione
- Japanese: 分類 (bunrui)
- Korean: 분류 (bunryu)
- Latin: (Neo-Latin) classificatio , classificationis (genitive); (Classical Latin) descriptio , descriptionis (genitive)
- Norwegian: klassifikasjon
- Polish: klasyfikacja
- Portuguese: classificação
- Russian: классифицирование (klassifitsírovanije)
- Spanish: clasificación
- Swedish: klassifikation , klassificering
- Ukranian: класифікація (klasyfikatija)
French
Extensive Definition
Classification may refer to:
- Library classification and classification in general
- Taxonomic classification
- Optimal classification
- Scientific classification of organisms
- Scientific classification (disambiguation)
- Classification (literature)
- Statistical classification
- Security classification
- Classification theorems in mathematics.
- Film classification
- CLASSIPHI, a seabed mapping tool supplied by QinetiQ
- Civil service classification, personnel grades in government
- Attribute-value system
- Ship classification
See also
classification in Afrikaans: Sistematiek
classification in Arabic: تصنيف
classification in Bulgarian: Класификация
classification in Danish: Klassifikation
classification in German: Klassifikation
classification in Estonian:
Klassifikatsioon
classification in Spanish: Clasificación
classification in French: Classification
classification in Croatian: Knjižnična
klasifikacija
classification in Hungarian: Osztályozás
classification in Dutch: Classificatie
classification in Japanese: 分類
classification in Norwegian:
Klassifikasjon
classification in Polish: Klasyfikacja
classification in Portuguese:
Classificação
classification in Russian: Классификация
classification in Simple English:
Classification
classification in Swedish: Klassificering
classification in Manx: Klasification
classification in Vietnamese: Phân loại
classification in Ukrainian:
Класифікація
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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