English noun: classification |
1. | classification (act) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type |
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| Synonyms | assortment, categorisation, categorization, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization |
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| Broader (hypernym) | grouping |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | indexing, reclassification, relegation, stratification, taxonomy, typology |
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2. | classification (group) a group of people or things arranged by class or category |
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| Synonyms | categorisation, categorization |
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| Broader (hypernym) | arrangement |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | dichotomy, duality, trichotomy |
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3. | classification (cognition) the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories |
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| Synonyms | categorisation, categorization, sorting |
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| Broader (hypernym) | basic cognitive process |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | appraisal, ascription, ascription, assessment, attribution, attribution, coordination, cross-classification, cross-division, subsumption |
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4. | classification (act) restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people |
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| Broader (hypernym) | confinement, restriction |
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| Antonyms | declassification |
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