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Classification

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categorizationnounThe process of sorting or arranging things into categories or classes.
sortingnounOrdering.
categorisationnoun(British spelling) Alternative form of categorization. [A group of things arranged by category.]

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declassificationnounThe process of declassifying.

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categorizationnounThe process of sorting or arranging things into categories or classes.
categorisationnoun(British spelling) Alternative form of categorization. [A group of things arranged by category.]
sortingnounOrdering.
categorynounA group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
subcategorynounWith respect to a given category; a narrower category.
categorizedverbThe characteristic of having been placed or sorted in a category or categories.
categorizeverb(transitive) To assign a category; to divide into classes.
classifyverbto identify by or divide into classes; to categorize
classifiednoun(informal) A classified advertisement in a newspaper or magazine.
classnoun(countable) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
typenounA grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
classifyingverbThat serves to classify.
classifiernounSomeone who classifies.
inclusionnoun(uncountable) The act of including, i.e. adding or annexing, (something) to a group, set, or total.
triagenoun(medicine) The process of sorting patients so as to determine the order in which they will be treated (for example, by assigning precedence according to the urgency of illness or injury).
sortedPut into some order by sorting.
sortnounA general type.
groupingnoun(countable) A collection of things or people united as a group.
disaggregationnounA division or breaking up into constituent parts, particularly the analytic disassembly of categories which have been aggregated or lumped together.
listedEntered on a list, especially an official one.

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