Classification

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Classification \Clas`si*fi*ca"tion\, 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]
  


     {Artificial classification}. (Science) See under
        {Artifitial}.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  classification
       n 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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  38 Moby Thesaurus words for "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,
     winnowing