different between category vs classification
category
- For information about Wiktionary categories, see Wiktionary:Categorization.
English
Etymology
Late Middle English, borrowed from French catégorie, from Middle French categorie, from Late Latin cat?goria (“class of predicables”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (kat?goría, “head of predicables”). Doublet of categoria.
Pronunciation
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /?kæt?????i/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?kæt??(?)?i/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /?k?t??(?)?i/, /?k?t???o??i/
- Hyphenation: cat?e?go?ry, cat?e?gory
Noun
category (plural categories)
- A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
- The traditional way of describing the similarities and differences between constituents is to say that they belong to categories of various types. Thus, words like boy, girl, man, woman, etc. are traditionally said to belong to the category of Nouns, whereas words like a, the, this, and that are traditionally said to belong to the category of Determiners.
- (mathematics) A collection of objects, together with a transitively closed collection of composable arrows between them, such that every object has an identity arrow, and such that arrow composition is associative.
Synonyms
- (group to which items are assigned): class, family, genus, group, kingdom, order, phylum, race, tribe, type
- See also Thesaurus:class
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- category in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- category in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
category From the web:
- what category was hurricane katrina
- what category was hurricane sandy
- what category was hurricane harvey
- what category of classification is escherichia
- what category was hurricane andrew
- what category was hurricane irma
- what category are eggs in
- what category is alcohol in
classification
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French classification
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?klæs?f??ke???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
classification (countable and uncountable, plural classifications)
- The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes.
- 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ?ISBN
- I’m using mathesis — a universal science of measurement and order …
And there is also taxinomia a principle of 'classification' and ordered tabulation.
Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …
Western reason had entered the age of judgement.
- I’m using mathesis — a universal science of measurement and order …
- 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ?ISBN
Derived terms
- classification scheme
- classification yard
Related terms
- class
- classic
- classify
- category
- categorize
- segment
Translations
Further reading
- classification in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- classification in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- classification at OneLook Dictionary Search
French
Etymology
classe +? -ification
Pronunciation
Noun
classification f (plural classifications)
- classification
Further reading
- “classification” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
classification From the web:
- what classification of drug is alcohol
- what classification is a bird
- what classification of alcohol is resistant to oxidation
- what classification is a worm
- what classification is our sun
- what classification is a fish
- what classification is a shark
- what classification is a snail
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