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Classification

noun

The act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type. Synonyms: assortment, categorisation, categorization, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization.

A group of people or things arranged by class or category. Synonyms: categorisation, categorization.

The basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories. Synonyms: categorisation, categorization, sorting.

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

... and nature was established. These tenets involved certain very knotty points respecting the fall of those angels, who, for disobedience, had forfeited their high abode in Heaven. The gnostics of early christian times, in imitation of a classification of the different orders of spirits by Plato, had attempted a similar arrangement with respect to an hierarchy of angels, the gradation ...

— Thaumaturgia • An Oxonian

... Classification came next. Here there were more indexes, and there were also charts and slides. There was an FBI agent sitting on a bench looking bored while two female technicians—classified as O&U for Old and Ugly in Malone's mind—fluttered around him, deciding what ...

— Occasion for Disaster • Gordon Randall Garrett

... the prison of women's power and spirit. Women have long been classed with criminals so far as their voting rights are concerned. And how quick the Government is to live up to its classification the minute women determinedly insist upon these rights. Prison life epitomizes all life under undemocratic rule. At Occoquan, as at the Capitol and the White House, we faced hypocrisy, trickery and treachery on the part of those in power. ...

— Jailed for Freedom • Doris Stevens

... Suggestion.—There are certain phenomena of a rather striking kind coming under this head whose classification is so evident that we may enumerate them without discussion of the general principles ...

— The Story of the Mind • James Mark Baldwin

... of this country in its smaller communities as in the larger centers, such as it is, is the product of undirected uncoordinated efforts of special interest groups. A general classification of the types of rural organizations may be made, first, into political, including the incorporated village, towns, townships, counties, and political parties; economic, including special associations around specific ...

— Church Cooperation in Community Life • Paul L. Vogt

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