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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
classification
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 for the different kinds of questions we want to ask.
▪ Direct comparison of the results of the two surveys is not possible because of the different methods of classification that have been used.
▪ Apart from any other objection, a different classification would be reached if the characters were used in a different sequence.
▪ A completely different classification of occupations would of course result.
faceted
▪ The making of a faceted classification scheme is a six-stage process: 1.
▪ These two methods, faceted classification and enumerative classification, are introduced in the next two sections.
▪ Facet analysis underlies the structure, but is not emphasized by facet indicators as in a more conventional faceted classification scheme.
▪ In taking isolates from the literature, faceted classification rests firmly on literary warrant.
▪ This process of analysis into facets is called facet analysis, and the resultant classification is termed a faceted classification.
▪ This will be appropriate for simple subjects in a faceted classification scheme.
▪ Most current special classification schemes have been devised with the aid of facet analysis and are thus faceted classification schemes.
general
▪ Approaches fall into three general classifications.
▪ Lanterne Rouge Last rider on general classification, given a red lamp and a special cheer on arrival in Paris.
▪ He will be the last man off, since riders begin in reverse order of positions on general classification.
▪ The existing major general classification schemes observe few of the theoretical bases for sound classification.
▪ However, it does provide a useful general classification of experiments.
new
▪ Their legacy may not survive the new system of classification now available in the National Curriculum.
▪ It is likely that a new classification of headaches will soon be forthcoming.
▪ The new directive covers classification, packaging and labelling and seeks to introduce Community-wide rules on notification of production or importation.
▪ But single-country studies that provide new classifications are useful for comparison.
simple
▪ In their simplest forms these classifications indicate average grain size, and the degree and form of the spread around that average.
▪ Currently there is a bewildering variety of software available and my first task will be to suggest a simple classification.
▪ The best documented measure of severity was a simple classification based on each patient's initial state of distress on presentation.
▪ Quantification provides greater descriptive flexibility and subtlety than simple classification.
▪ We hope you will find this helpful - though, inevitably, there are some events which defy simple classification.
special
▪ Perhaps the major problem in devising a special classification scheme is the definition of the subject area to be covered.
▪ This was a special classification, established in order to fit the Volunteers into the university framework.
▪ In some senses these could also be regarded as special classification schemes.
▪ Most such new schemes will not be general, but rather special classification schemes designed for a particular application or subject.
▪ Most current special classification schemes have been devised with the aid of facet analysis and are thus faceted classification schemes.
■ NOUN
scheme
▪ Append notation Naturally a classification scheme is not complete until the notation has been added.
▪ All psychiatric problems are brain problems, and the psychiatrists are changing their classification scheme to try and avoid that cartesian dichotomy.
▪ This chapter considers each of these components of a classification scheme in turn.
▪ Notation for classification schemes will be considered at greater length in section 13.3. 6.
▪ A number of factors determine the length of the notation in a classification scheme.
▪ Facet analysis underlies the structure, but is not emphasized by facet indicators as in a more conventional faceted classification scheme.
▪ Perhaps the major problem in devising a special classification scheme is the definition of the subject area to be covered.
▪ Father's occupation and social class were coded by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys 1980 classification scheme.
security
▪ Such information may not necessarily carry any security classification within the Service, but may simply reveal dispositions, working arrangements etc.
system
▪ Sampling of farms is likely to follow a national land classification system developed by the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology at Merlewood.
▪ Hence, figure 8. 2 reflects a classification system similar to ones used by biologists for plants and animals.
▪ That the court is entitled to establish its own classification system has been seen already.
▪ A classification system in itself does not 23 have power and ought not to have power.
▪ The separation of children at eleven was a classification system that perpetuated social class division; it was also an educational typology.
▪ Third, should every kind of problem that people bring to a therapist be part of a diagnostic classification system?
▪ A classification system for economic consequences issues in accounting regulation - John Blake.
▪ This has been demonstrated with a bird classification system.
■ VERB
based
▪ This is based on enumerative classification, which is deeply rooted in the traditions of epidemiology and vital statistics.
▪ This was based on classification of the proportions of the bodies of the vessels and the decorative motifs employed.
▪ Semantic class - the grouping of words according to similar semantic behaviour offers potential for predicting semantic roles based on their classification.
provide
▪ Scholars compare to provide context, make classifications, test hypotheses, and make predictions.
▪ But single-country studies that provide new classifications are useful for comparison.
▪ However, it does provide a useful general classification of experiments.
▪ They provide coding, classification and lists of parts.
▪ Table 3.1 provides a classification of such institutions.
show
▪ In a simple format, everything is clearly shown within each classification.
▪ We could have selected. 5, but experience has shown that pattern classification neural networks are extremely accurate.
▪ Figure 6.4 shows this fourfold classification and the number of groups that fall into each of the categories.
▪ Chart A shows the classification of the two major classes and variations flowing from each.
▪ The classification scheme is intended to act as an authority in selecting the relationships to be shown.
use
▪ All these features are used in the classification of the group.
▪ This involves a search of computerised databases against these criteria by using standard industry classification codes.
▪ We see no case for using industry classifications as a test of relatedness.
▪ The colonic carcinomas were staged using Dukes's classification.
▪ For a given corpus size, if one uses coarser classification then more reliable but less precise predictions are obtained.
▪ He used this classification to analyse the writing of 9, 13 and 17 year olds.
▪ It may also be possible to extend the diagnostic discrimination using cytokeratin subtype classification, neuroendocrine status, or serological antibody titres.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ job classifications
▪ The classification of wines is often done according to their region.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Anyone could ask a three-judge panel to override those classifications and order a document released.
▪ Do you think your friends will accept your definition and classification?
▪ In general, though, thinking was retarded by the dichotomous classifications that were in use at the time.
▪ It may also be possible to extend the diagnostic discrimination using cytokeratin subtype classification, neuroendocrine status, or serological antibody titres.
▪ It too easily degenerated into a concern with trivial verbal classifications, and artificial categories.
▪ This has been demonstrated with a bird classification system.
▪ This thematic classification is not without its drawbacks.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Classification

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) See under Artifitial.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
classification

1772, "action of classifying," noun of action from Latin stem of classify, or from French classification. Meaning "result of classifying" is from 1789.

Wiktionary
classification

n. The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes.

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WordNet
classification

  1. n. 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]

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Wikipedia
Classification

Classification is a general process related to categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood.

A classification system is an approach to accomplishing classification.

Classification may refer specifically to:

Classification (literature)

Classification is a figure of speech linking a proper noun to a common noun using the or other articles.

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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.