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Classifier

noun

A person who creates classifications.

A word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted item belongs.

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"Classifier" Quotes from Famous Books

... however, are usually so fond of fanciful ear-catching titles, that every excuse must be made for the cataloguer, who mistakes their meaning, and takes them in their literal signification. Who can reprove too severely the classifier who placed Swinburne's Under the Microscope in his class of Optical Instruments, or treated Ruskin's Notes on the Construction of Sheetfolds as a work on agricultural appliances? A late instance of an amusing misclassification is ...

— Literary Blunders • Henry B. Wheatley

... from the higher apes; yet in most systems, from that of Cuvier to the most recent one by Mr. Flower (4. 'Proceedings Zoological Society,' 1863, p. 4.), seals are ranked as a mere family in the Order of the Carnivora. If man had not been his own classifier, he would never have thought of founding a separate order ...

— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin

... the gross-feeding John Bull never dreamed. He extracts the finest flavors and quintessential principles from flesh and vegetables. He drinks light and sparkling wines, the vintage of Champagne and Burgundy. Accordingly the Frenchman is lightsome and buoyant. He is a great theorist and classifier. He adheres to the ornate worship of the Mother Church when religiously disposed. His literature is perspicuous and clear. He is an admirable doctrinaire and generalizer,—witness Guizot and Montesquieu. ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 • Various

Words linked to "Classifier" : thinker, morpheme, word, classify