category

category

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English

Etymology

Late Middle English, borrowed from French catégorie, from Middle French categorie, from Late Latin catēgoria (class of predicables), from Ancient Greek κατηγορία (katēgoría, head of predicables). Doublet of categoria.

Pronunciation

  • (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈkætəˌɡɔɹi/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkætɪɡ(ə)ɹi/
  • (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈkɛtɘɡ(ɘ)ɹi/, /ˈkɛtɘˌɡoːɹi/
  • Hyphenation: cat‧e‧go‧ry, cat‧e‧gory

Noun

category (plural categories)

  1. A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
  2. (mathematics) A collection of objects, together with a transitively closed collection of composable arrows between them, such that every object has an identity arrow, and such that arrow composition is associative.

Synonyms

  • (group to which items are assigned): class, family, genus, group, kingdom, order, phylum, race, tribe, type
  • See also Thesaurus:class

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Further reading

  • “category”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “category”, in The Century Dictionary [], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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