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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
categorization

1866, noun of action from categorize. Perhaps influenced by French catégorisation (1845).

Wiktionary
categorization

n. 1 A group of things arranged by category; a classification. 2 The process of sorting or arranging things into categories or classes.

WordNet
categorization
  1. n. a group of people or things arranged by class or category [syn: classification, categorisation]

  2. the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories [syn: classification, categorisation, sorting]

  3. the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type [syn: categorisation, classification, compartmentalization, compartmentalisation, assortment]

Wikipedia
Categorization

Categorization is the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood. Categorization implies that objects are grouped into categories, usually for some specific purpose. Ideally, a category illuminates a relationship between the subjects and objects of knowledge. Categorization is fundamental in language, prediction, inference, decision making and in all kinds of environmental interaction. It is indicated that categorization plays a major role in computer programming.

There are many categorization theories and techniques. In a broader historical view, however, three general approaches to categorization may be identified:

  • Classical categorization
  • Conceptual clustering
  • Prototype theory

Usage examples of "categorization".

I do not doubt that basic sensorimotor cognition and the early mental categorization process has many of the features outlined by the enactive paradigm.

Kroft may have been trying to pay us a compliment, but his categorization of our marriage was so off target that Bill was incredulous.

I am working on developing some orderly categorizations for the infant science of phrenology.