category
A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or…A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
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Meaning
2 sensesA group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
This steep and dangerous climb belongs to the most difficult category.
I wouldn’t put this book in the same category as the author’s first novel.
Kategorie
катего́рияkategórija
катего́ріяkatehórija
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.
One well-known category has sets as objects and functions as arrows.
Kategorie
катего́рияkategórija
катего́ріяkatehórija
- a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme
- a collection of things sharing a common attribute
Examples
80 sentencesHow many categories are there?
Data compression algorithms can be classified in two categories: those with data loss and those without data loss.
ruАлгоритмы сжатия данных можно разделить на две категории: с потерей данных и без потерь данных.
deDatenkompressionsalgorithmen lassen sich in zwei Kategorien aufteilen: verlustbehaftete und verlustfreie.
Irma is a category 5 hurricane.
Ірма — ураган п'ятої категорії.
deIrma ist ein Orkan der Kategorie 5.
They don't belong under that category.
ruОни не принадлежат к этой категории.
deSie fallen nicht unter diese Kategorie.
This doesn't fit into any category.
ruЭто не вписывается ни в какую категорию.
Translations
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Origin
Late Middle English, borrowed from French catégorie, from Middle French categorie, from LaLate 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.
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Forms
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