[klas-uh-fahy-er] 
| 1. | a person or thing that classifies. |
| 2. | a device for separating solids of different characteristics by controlled rates of settling. |
| 3. | Grammar. (in Chinese, Japanese, and other languages) a word or morpheme that corresponds to a semantic class of nouns and regularly accompanies any noun of that class in certain syntactic constructions, such as those of numeration. |
| clas·si·fi·er (klās'ə-fī'ər) n. A word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts, such as counting, that indicates the semantic class to which an item belongs. For example, hon is used in Japanese in counting long slender objects such as sticks or pencils. |
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