classification

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from French classification. === Pronunciation === (US) IPA(key): /ˌklæsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/ Rhymes: -eɪʃən === Noun === classification (countable and uncountable, plural classifications) 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. Near-synonyms: categorization, classifying, categorizing, typing, sorting 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN I’m using mathesis — a universal science of measurement and order …And there is also taxinomia a principle of 'classification' and ordered tabulation.Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …Western reason had entered the age of judgement. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== === Further reading === “classification”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “classification”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “classification”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. == French == === Etymology === From classifier +‎ -ation. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kla.si.fi.ka.sjɔ̃/ ~ /klɑ.si.fi.ka.sjɔ̃/ === Noun === classification f (plural classifications) classification === Further reading === “classification”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012