classification

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French classification.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌklæsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

classification (countable and uncountable, plural classifications)

1. 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.

   Near-synonyms: categorization, typing

   • 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN

     I’m using mathesis — a universal science of measurement and order …
     And there is also taxinomia a principle of 'classification' and ordered tabulation.
     Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …
     Western reason had entered the age of judgement.

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Further reading

• “classification”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “classification”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “classification”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

French

Etymology

From classe +‎ -ification.

Pronunciation

Noun

classification f (plural classifications)

1. classification

Further reading

• “classification”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.