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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun classification has 4 senses
- classification(n = noun.act) assortment, categorisation, categorization, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization - the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type; Array is a kind of grouping
- classification(n = noun.group) categorisation, categorization - a group of people or things arranged by class or category; Array is a kind of arrangement
- classification(n = noun.cognition) categorisation, categorization, sorting - the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories; Array has particulars: coordination, appraisal, assessment, ascription, attribution, ascription, attribution, cross-classification, cross-division, subsumption
- classification(n = noun.act) Array - restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people; Array is a kind of confinement, restriction
has particulars: indexing, reclassification, relegation, stratification, taxonomy, typology
Derived forms verb classify1, verb classify3
has particulars: dichotomy, duality, trichotomy
Derived forms verb classify1, verb classify3
is a kind of basic cognitive process
Derived forms verb classify1, verb classify3
Derived form verb classify2
Antonym: declassification
CIDE DICTIONARY
classification, n. [Cf. F. 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 affinities. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
classification
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, winnowingROGET THESAURUS
classification
Arrangement
N arrangement, plan, preparation, disposal, disposition, collocation, allocation, distribution, sorting, assortment, allotment, apportionment, taxis, taxonomy, syntaxis, graduation, organization, grouping, tabulation, analysis, classification, clustering, division, digestion, digest, synopsis, syntagma, table, atlas, file, database, register, organism, architecture, sieve, riddle, screen, sorter, arranged, embattled, in battle array, cut and dried, methodical, orderly, regular, systematic, In vast cumbrous array.Identification
N identification, recognition, diagnosis, match, apperception, assimilation, dereplication, classification, memory, interpretation, cognizance (knowledge).
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