Meaning
2 senses(countable, uncountable)A group of things arranged by category.
a group of people or things arranged by class or category
(countable, uncountable)The process of sorting or arranging things into categories or classes.
Kategorisierung
категоризацияkategorizacija
the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories
Examples
1 sentencesJudaism defies easy categorization.
Translations
8 languagesРусский
By meaning 1
process of sorting or arranging things into categories or classes:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
process of sorting or arranging things into categories or classes:
Forms
plural: categorizationsSynonyms
7 synonymsClose in meaning
- the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type:categorisationclassificationcompartmentalizationcompartmentalisationassortment
- the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories:classificationcategorisationsorting
- a group of people or things arranged by class or category:classificationcategorisation
Word family
11 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.