classification
The act of forming into a class or classesThe act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes.
» The natural world challenges our binary classifications.
Meaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)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, classifying, categorizing, typing, sorting
Klassifikation, Klassifizierung
классифика́цияklassifikácija, классифици́рованиеklassificírovanije
класифіка́ціяklasyfikácija
the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type
Examples
14 sentencesThe natural world challenges our binary classifications.
Not every racist country has the same racial classification system.
deNicht jedes rassistische Land hat die gleiche Rasseneinteilung.
The first biologists worked hard towards the classification of living things.
Support vector machines are supervised learning models used for classification and regression analysis.
deSupportvektormaschinen sind Modelle des überwachten Lernens, die für Klassifikations- und Regressionsanalysen verwendet werden.
The taxonomic rank is a hierarchical level of the scientific classification of the organisms.
Translations
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Origin
Borrowed from French classification.Borrowed from French classification.
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Forms
plural: classifications| Singular | classification |
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Synonyms
9 synonyms- the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories:categorizationcategorisationsorting
- a group of people or things arranged by class or category:categorizationcategorisation
- the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type:categorizationcategorisationcompartmentalizationcompartmentalisationassortment
Antonyms
1 antonymsWord family
31 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable