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Category

//ˈkæt.ɪ.ɡ(ə.)ɹi// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A 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."

  2. 2
    a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme wordnet
  3. 3
    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."

  4. 4
    a collection of things sharing a common attribute wordnet

Etymology

Late 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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