classification

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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

2. 2
   noun

   the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type

3. 3
   noun

   restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people

4. 4
   noun

   the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories

5. 5
   noun

   a group of people or things arranged by class or category

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁-der. Proto-Italic *klāssis Latin classislbor. French classe Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-fakāō Latin -ficōder. French -ifier French classifier Proto-Indo-European *-tisder. Proto-Italic *-tjō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ation Middle French -ation French -ation French classificationbor. English classification Borrowed from French classification.