He was a model of anal defensiveness: fastidious in his dress and appearance, a collector and putter of things in order, a classifier and labeler.
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Classifier
//ˈklæsɪfaɪɚ//
Synonyms for "classifier" (1 found)
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Noun(1 words)
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3 entriesderived
8 entrieshas context
3 entriesis a
3 entriesrelated to
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
Translations
53 translations across 22 languages.
American Sign Language
1 entries- C@Side-PalmAcross L@Side-PalmAcross noun ((linguistics) word or morpheme used to indicate a semantic class)
Arabic
4 entries- مَصَانِيف noun (someone who classifies)
- مُصَنِّف noun (someone who classifies)
- مُصَنِّفَات noun (someone who classifies)
- مُصَنِّفَان noun (someone who classifies)
Burmese
1 entries- သင်္ချာပစ္စည်း noun ((linguistics) word or morpheme used to indicate a semantic class)
Catalan
2 entries- classificador noun (someone who classifies)
- classificadora noun (someone who classifies)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 量詞 /量词 noun ((linguistics) word or morpheme used to indicate a semantic class)
Czech
1 entries- klasifikátor noun (someone who classifies)
French
4 entries- classificateur noun (someone who classifies)
- classificateur noun ((linguistics) word or morpheme used to indicate a semantic class)
- classifieur noun (computing: a program or algorithm that classifies)
- classifieur noun (OOP: class which classifies other classes by features)
German
4 entries- Klassifikator noun ((linguistics) word or morpheme used to indicate a semantic class)
- Numeralklassifikator noun ((linguistics) word or morpheme used to indicate a semantic class)
- Zahlklassifikator noun ((linguistics) word or morpheme used to indicate a semantic class)
- Zähleinheitswort noun ((linguistics) word or morpheme used to indicate a semantic class)
Hungarian
1 entries- számlálószó noun ((linguistics) word or morpheme used to indicate a semantic class)
Japanese
3 entries- 助数詞 noun ((linguistics) word or morpheme used to indicate a semantic class)
- 量詞 noun ((linguistics) word or morpheme used to indicate a semantic class)
- 類別詞 noun ((linguistics) word or morpheme used to indicate a semantic class)
Kazakh
1 entries- сыныптауыш noun (computing: a program or algorithm that classifies)
Khmer
2 entries- នាមរនាប់ noun ((linguistics) word or morpheme used to indicate a semantic class)
- សំខ្យានុគ្រោះ noun ((linguistics) word or morpheme used to indicate a semantic class)
Korean
2 entries- 수분류사 noun ((linguistics) word or morpheme used to indicate a semantic class)
- 양수사 noun ((linguistics) word or morpheme used to indicate a semantic class)
Lao
1 entries- ລັກສະນະນາມ noun ((linguistics) word or morpheme used to indicate a semantic class)
Malay
1 entries- penjodoh bilangan noun ((linguistics) word or morpheme used to indicate a semantic class)
Māori
1 entries- kaiwhakarōpū noun (someone who classifies)
Occitan
1 entries- classificador noun (someone who classifies)
Portuguese
2 entries- classificador noun (someone who classifies)
- classificador noun ((linguistics) word or morpheme used to indicate a semantic class)
Russian
2 entries- классифика́тор noun ((linguistics) word or morpheme used to indicate a semantic class)
- счётное сло́во noun ((linguistics) word or morpheme used to indicate a semantic class)
Swedish
2 entries- klassificerare noun (someone who classifies)
- klassmärke noun ((linguistics) word or morpheme used to indicate a semantic class)
Thai
1 entries- ลักษณนาม noun ((linguistics) word or morpheme used to indicate a semantic class)
Vietnamese
3 entries- danh từ chỉ đơn vị tự nhiên noun ((linguistics) word or morpheme used to indicate a semantic class)
- danh từ loại thể noun ((linguistics) word or morpheme used to indicate a semantic class)
- loại từ noun ((linguistics) word or morpheme used to indicate a semantic class)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
A classifier can have several types of extra information attached to it via a UML mechanism called adornments.
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The owner scope of a feature specifies whether the feature appears in each instance of the classifier or whether there is just a single instance of the feature for all instances of the classifier.
Source: wiktionary
The figure also shows that instances can be associated with a classifier Behavior, which represents the behavior that active objects start executing when created.
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