classification

3 definitions found

classification - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Artificial classification. (Science) See under
        Artifitial.
        [1913 Webster]

classification - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  classification
      n 1: the act of distributing things into classes or categories
           of the same type [syn: categorization, categorisation,
           classification, compartmentalization,
           compartmentalisation, assortment]
      2: a group of people or things arranged by class or category
         [syn: classification, categorization, categorisation]
      3: the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or
         categories [syn: classification, categorization,
         categorisation, sorting]
      4: restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons
         that are available only to certain authorized people [ant:
         declassification]

classification - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  38 Moby Thesaurus words for "classification":
     antonomasia, appraisal, assessment, binomial nomenclature,
     biosystematics, biosystematy, categorization, class, evaluation,
     factoring, family, gauging, genus, glossology, grouping,
     identification, kingdom, nomenclature, onomastics, onomatology,
     order, orismology, phylum, place-names, place-naming, polyonymy,
     sifting, sifting out, sorting, sorting out, species, systematics,
     taxonomy, terminology, toponymy, trinomialism, weighing,
     winnowing