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Classification

//ˌklæsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. countable, uncountable

    "Near-synonyms: categorization, typing"

  2. 2
    the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type wordnet
  3. 3
    restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people wordnet
  4. 4
    the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories wordnet
  5. 5
    a group of people or things arranged by class or category wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from French classification.

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