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classification

[ klas-uh-fi-key-shuhn ]

noun

  1. the act of classifying.
  2. the result of classifying or being classified. classify.
  3. one of the groups or classes into which things may be or have been classified. classify.
  4. Biology. the assignment of organisms to groups within a system of categories distinguished by structure, origin, etc. The usual series of categories is phylum (or, especially in botany, division ), class, order, family, genus, species, and variety.
  5. the category, as restricted, confidential, secret, or top secret, to which information, a document, etc., is assigned, as by a government or military agency, based on the degree of protection considered necessary to safeguard it from unauthorized use.
  6. Library Science. any of various systems for arranging books and other materials, especially according to subject or format.


classification

/ ˌklæsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən /

noun

  1. systematic placement in categories
  2. one of the divisions in a system of classifying
  3. biology
    1. the placing of animals and plants in a series of increasingly specialized groups because of similarities in structure, origin, molecular composition, etc, that indicate a common relationship. The major groups are domain or superkingdom, kingdom, phylum (in animals) or division (in plants), class, order, family, genus, and species
    2. the study of the principles and practice of this process; taxonomy
  4. government the designation of an item of information as being secret and not available to people outside a restricted group


classification

/ klăs′ə-fĭ-kāshən /

  1. The systematic grouping of organisms according to the structural or evolutionary relationships among them. Organisms are normally classified by observed similarities in their body and cell structure or by evolutionary relationships based on the analysis of sequences of their DNA.
  2. See more at cladisticsSee Table at taxonomy


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Derived Forms

  • ˌclassifiˈcational, adjective
  • ˌclassifiˈcatory, adjective

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Other Words From

  • clas·si·fi·ca·to·ry [kl, uh, -, sif, -i-k, uh, -tawr-ee, -tohr-ee, klas, -, uh, -fi-, klas-, uh, -fi-, key, -t, uh, -ree], adjective
  • cla·sifi·ca·tori·ly adverb
  • classi·fi·cation·al adjective
  • mis·classi·fi·cation noun
  • nonclas·si·fi·cation noun
  • over·classi·fi·cation noun
  • preclas·si·fi·cation noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of classification1

1780–90; < Latin classi ( s ) class + -fication

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Word History and Origins

Origin of classification1

C18: from French; see class , -ify , -ation

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Example Sentences

Yet much of the best new music defies genre classification; great artists take chances and cross boundaries.

Still, Wallace said that no one at the meeting involving Fearey, which he also attended, raised classification concerns.

“The classification system, of course, is not supposed to be used for political purposes,” Bunn said.

But Doyle said Fearey never raised any concerns about classification.

Lambic represents the parent classification for a host of sub-categories.

His hero, Gulliver, discovers race after race of beings who typify the genera in his classification of mankind.

In addition to the tolls and charges, the Acts usually contained a rough classification of goods to which they applied.

When the child entered the workhouse it passed out of its former classification and entered into an entirely different one.

By 1860 it "had given instructions that every new workhouse should be so constructed as to allow of the requisite classification."

In some later writers on music we find this classification reduced to a more regular form, and clothed in technical language.

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