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Classification

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Noun

1. assortment, categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization

the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type

2. categorisation, categorization, classification

a group of people or things arranged by class or category

3. categorisation, categorization, classification, sorting

the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories

4. classification

restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Classification

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noun
1. 
systematic placement in categories
2. 
one of the divisions in a system of classifying
3. biology
a. 
the placing of animals and plants in a series of increasingly specialized groups because of similarities in structure, origin, molecular composition, etc, that indicate a common relationship. The major groups are domain or superkingdom, kingdom, phylum (in animals) or division (in plants), class, order, family, genus, and species
b. 
the study of the principles and practice of this process; taxonomy
4. government
the designation of an item of information as being secret and not available to people outside a restricted group

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Classification

see synonyms of classification
noun
1. 
a classifying or being classified; arrangement according to some systematic division into classes or groups
2. 
a. 
a system of such classes or groups
b. 
such a class or group
3.  Biology
taxonomy

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Classification

see synonyms of classification
n.
1. The act, process, or result of classifying.
2. A category or class.
3. Biology The systematic grouping of organisms into categories on the basis of evolutionary or structural relationships between them; taxonomy.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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