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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Classification \Clas'si*fi*ca"tion\, noun [Cf. F. classification.] The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or affinities.
{Artificial classification}. (Science) See under {Artifitial}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
classification
noun
1: the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type [syn: {categorization}, {categorisation}, {compartmentalization}, {compartmentalisation}, {assortment}]
2: a group of people or things arranged by class or category [syn: {categorization}, {categorisation}]
3: the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories [syn: {categorization}, {categorisation}, {sorting}]
4: restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people [ant: {declassification}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
38 Moby Thesaurus words for "classification": antonomasia, appraisal, assessment, binomial nomenclature, biosystematics, biosystematy, categorization, class, evaluation, factoring, family, gauging, genus, glossology, grouping, identification, kingdom, nomenclature, onomastics, onomatology, order, orismology, phylum, place-names, place-naming, polyonymy, sifting, sifting out, sorting, sorting out, species, systematics, taxonomy, terminology, toponymy, trinomialism, weighing, winnowing
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