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Classification   /klˌæsəfəkˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Classification

noun
1.
The act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type.  Synonyms: assortment, categorisation, categorization, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization.
2.
A group of people or things arranged by class or category.  Synonyms: categorisation, categorization.
3.
The basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories.  Synonyms: categorisation, categorization, sorting.
4.
Restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people.



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"Classification" Quotes from Famous Books



... replied complacently. Then he added, "If I were commissioned to draw up a new legal code, and had previously enjoyed the privilege, as I have been doing lately, of listening to the conversation of you three young ladies, I should make precisely the same classification." ...
— Elizabeth and her German Garden • "Elizabeth", AKA Marie Annette Beauchamp
... sample of a hand which would be a Royal, if length in Spades accompanied the strength. Such hands come within the "d" classification, and are not rare. This must be admitted when it is considered that three- or four-card suits are much more frequently held than suits of greater length. Therefore, two Spades should be bid more often ...
— Auction of To-day • Milton C. Work
... a survey of the moral virtues and vices. These seem to have been undertaken in order to verify in detail the general account, but this aim is not kept steadily in view. Nor is there any well-considered principle of classification. What we find is a sort of portrait-gallery of the various types of moral excellence which the Greeks of the author's age admired and strove to encourage. The discussion is full of acute, interesting ...
— Ethics • Aristotle
... appointment to which Madame Junot, wrongly dating it, alludes as "no great thing" (Junot, vol. i, p. 143). Another officer was therefore substituted for him as commander of Roches artillery, a fact made use of in the Erreurs (p. 31) to deny his having been dismissed—But a general re-classification of the generals was being made. The artillery generals were in excess of their establishment, and Bonaparte, as junior in age, was ordered on 13th June to join Hoche's army at Brest to command a brigade of infantry. All ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton
... and King, and met with a hearty reception. The schools under their care are the most gratifying sight we have seen. J. Hill and his wife have nearly 500 children on their list. We were much pleased with the arrangements of the schools: the classification is the best I have ever seen, and the children exhibit intelligence and thirst for instruction. The effect of Scriptural instruction on the minds of the Greek children is very gratifying. A young girl whom ...
— Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel • John Yeardley


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