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classnoun(countable) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
familynounA group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.

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classnoun(countable) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
familynounA group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
classificationnounThe act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes.
categorizationnounThe process of sorting or arranging things into categories or classes.
subcategorynounWith respect to a given category; a narrower category.
categorizedverbThe characteristic of having been placed or sorted in a category or categories.
typenounA grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
classifiednoun(informal) A classified advertisement in a newspaper or magazine.
kindnounA type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
componentnounA smaller, self-contained part of a larger entity. Often refers to a manufactured object that is part of a larger device.
groupnounA number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
groupingnoun(countable) A collection of things or people united as a group.
sortnounA general type.
rankingnounOne’s relative placement in a list.
sectornounA section.
tranchenounA slice, section or portion.
instalmentnoun(Australia, British, Canada) Standard spelling of installment.
clusternounA bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.
formnoun(heading, physical) To do with shape.
segmentnounOne of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion.

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