Classification

Noun

 * 1) 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.

Adjectives for Classification
racial; minute; inexact; detailed; price; misleading; occupational; moral; lucid; compendious; social; principal; broad; fixed.

Verbs for Classification
allocate—; arrange—; assign—; assume—; attempt—; confirm—; correct—; distinguish—; employ—; exclude—; exhaust—; formulate—; head—; lead—; observe—;lace in—; question—; recognize—; reduce—; retain—; separate into—; subordinate—; systematize—; —allows; — orders; —permits.

Derived terms

 * classification scheme

Related terms

 * class
 * classic
 * classify
 * category
 * categorize
 * segment

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From classification.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: класификация (klasifikátsija)
 * Catalan: classificació
 * Chinese: 分類, 分类 (fēnlèi)
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: klasado
 * Extremaduran:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ταξινόμηση (taksinómisi), κατάταξη
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 分類 (bunrui)


 * Korean:
 * Latin: (Neo-Latin) classificatio, classificationis (genitive); (Classical Latin) descriptio , descriptionis (genitive)
 * Norwegian: klassifikasjon
 * Persian: رده‌بندی
 * Polish: klasyfikacja
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: clasificare
 * Russian: классифицирование (klassifitsírovanije)
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: klassifikation, klassificering
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: класифікація (klasyfikacija)

Noun

 * 1) classification