classification
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French classification.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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.
- 1937-1952, Jorge Luis Borges, Other Inquisitions[1]:
- On those remote pages it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a verfy fine camel's hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a distance.
- 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.
- I’m using mathesis — a universal science of measurement and order …
Derived termsEdit
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TranslationsEdit
act of forming into classes
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See alsoEdit
Further readingEdit
- classification in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- classification in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- classification at OneLook Dictionary Search
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
classe + -ification
PronunciationEdit
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NounEdit
classification f (plural classifications)
Further readingEdit
- “classification”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.