'Classification' definitions:
Definition of 'classification'
From: WordNet
noun
The act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type [syn: categorization, categorisation, classification, compartmentalization, compartmentalisation, assortment]
noun
A group of people or things arranged by class or category [syn: classification, categorization, categorisation]
noun
The basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories [syn: classification, categorization, categorisation, sorting]
noun
Restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people [ant: declassification]
Definition of 'Classification'
From: GCIDE
- Classification \Clas`si*fi*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. F. classification.] The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or affinities. [1913 Webster]
- Artificial classification. (Science) See under Artifitial. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'classification'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- antonomasia,
- appraisal,
- assessment,
- binomial nomenclature,
- biosystematics,
- biosystematy,
- categorization,
- class,
- evaluation,
- factoring,
- family,
- gauging,
- genus,
- glossology,
- grouping,
- identification,
- kingdom,
- nomenclature,
- onomastics,
- onomatology,
- order,
- orismology,
- phylum,
- place-names,
- place-naming,
- polyonymy,
- sifting,
- sifting out,
- sorting,
- sorting out,
- species,
- systematics,
- taxonomy,
- terminology,
- toponymy,
- trinomialism,
- weighing,
- winnowing