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The grouping of things into classes or categories
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Classification is a figure of speech linking a proper noun to a common noun using the or other articles.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type [syn: categorization , categorisation , compartmentalization , compartmentalisation , assortment ] a group of people or things arranged by class or category [syn: categorization ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1772, "action of classifying," noun of action from Latin stem of classify , or from French classification . Meaning "result of classifying" is from 1789.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE different ▪ Tables 6.6 and 6.7 give two views of this shift, considering different time periods and employing different classifications . ▪ We now recognize more clearly that different classifications are needed ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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. Artificial classification . (Science) ...
Usage examples of classification.
With this the publishers desired to incorporate a chapter giving the latest views of Agassiz upon classification and evolution.
Many hundreds of ruins have been examined by Mr Bandelier, and doubtless the classification above afforded a convenient working basis for the region with which he is most familiar, the basin of the Rio Grande and its tributaries.
Modern classifications of the Bryales depend mainly on the construction of the peristome.
Such a being would in theory stand at the head of the three orders of Gods mentioned by Herodotus, these being regarded as arbitrary classifications of similar or equal beings, arranged in successive emanations, according to an estimate of their comparative dignity.
It may even be given as a general rule, that the less any part of the organisation is concerned with special habits, the more important it becomes for classification.
The quantities and values of sewed straw hats imported into the United States were not separately shown in official statistics prior to the tariff act of 1922, in which sewed straw hats were given a separate classification.
Borges assigns to that distortion of classification that prevents us from applying it, to that picture that lacks all spatial coherence, is a precise region whose name alone constitutes for the West a vast reservoir of Utopias.
Under most circumstances McKay had no use for lezzies, but these two had long ago established themselves in his eyes as Good Troop, which transcended all other classifications.
Although he was an active and respected member of the Linnaean Society and employed Linnaean principles in his new scheme, Howard chose the rather more obscure Askesian Society as the forum to announce his new system of classification.
Though he was entirely self-taught, never learned Latin, and had scant understanding of Linnaean classifications, he was a prize plant collector, with an uncanny knack for finding and recognizing unknown species.
Taking one of the flowers from the bunch, Asenath, as they slowly walked forward, proceeded to dissect it, explained the mysteries of stamens and pistils, pollen, petals, and calyx, and, by the time they had reached the village, had succeeded in giving him a general idea of the Linnaean system of classification.
Animals can be classified spirituallyand there is no point in any other classification, such as the materialistic Linnean oneinto two great groups, herbivores and beasts of prey.
This is not important, however, as the only patterns in which we need to define the pattern area for classification purposes are loops and whorls.
The Marchantiales are divided into a number of groups which represent distinct lines of advance from forms like the Ricciaceae, but the details of their classification cannot be entered upon here.
As they unquestionably influence the bodily organs, we are sustained by physical analogy, in our classification.