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n. (act) | 1. assortment, categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization | the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type. |
| ~ grouping | the activity of putting things together in groups. |
| ~ indexing | the act of classifying and providing an index in order to make items easier to retrieve. |
| ~ reclassification | classifying something again (usually in a new category). |
| ~ relegation | the act of assigning (someone or something) to a particular class or category. |
| ~ stratification | the act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata. |
| ~ taxonomy | practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships. |
| ~ typology | classification according to general type. |
n. (group) | 2. categorisation, categorization, classification | a group of people or things arranged by class or category. |
| ~ arrangement | an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging.; "a flower arrangement" |
| ~ dichotomy, duality | being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses.; "the dichotomy between eastern and western culture" |
| ~ trichotomy | being threefold; a classification into three parts or subclasses. |
n. (cognition) | 3. categorisation, categorization, classification, sorting | the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories. |
| ~ coordination | being of coordinate importance, rank, or degree. |
| ~ basic cognitive process | cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge. |
| ~ appraisal, assessment | the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth. |
| ~ ascription, attribution | assigning to a cause or source.; "the attribution of lighting to an expression of God's wrath"; "he questioned the attribution of the painting to Picasso" |
| ~ ascription, attribution | assigning some quality or character to a person or thing.; "the attribution of language to birds"; "the ascription to me of honors I had not earned" |
| ~ cross-classification, cross-division | classification according to more than one attribute at the same time.; "the cross-classification of cases was done by age and sex" |
| ~ subsumption | incorporating something under a more general category. |
n. (act) | 4. classification | restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people. |
| ~ restriction, confinement | the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary).; "the restriction of the infection to a focal area" |
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