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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
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branch
English
Alternative forms
- braunch (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English branche, braunche, bronche, borrowed from Old French branche, brance, from Late Latin branca (“footprint”, later also “paw, claw”), of unknown origin, possibly from Gaulish *vranca, from Proto-Indo-European *wrónk-eh?.
Indo-European cognates include Old Norse vró (“angle, corner”), Lithuanian rankà (“hand”), Old Church Slavonic ???? (r?ka, “hand”), Albanian rangë (“yardwork”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bränch, IPA(key): /b???nt?/
- (US, Northern England) enPR: br?nch, IPA(key): /b?ænt?/
- Rhymes: -??nt?, -ænt?
Noun
branch (plural branches)
- The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
- Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.
- (chiefly Southern US) A creek or stream which flows into a larger river. (compare Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia run, and New York and New England brook.)
- (geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
- A location of an organization with several locations.
- A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.
- 1602, Richard Carew, Survey of Cornwall
- his father, a younger branch of the ancient stock
- 1602, Richard Carew, Survey of Cornwall
- (Mormonism) A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia article on ward in LDS church.
- An area in business or of knowledge, research.
- (nautical) A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
- (computing) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.
- (computing) A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images.
- (rail transport) A branch line.
Synonyms
- (part of a tree): bough, limb, tillow, twig; see also Thesaurus:tree
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
branch (third-person singular simple present branches, present participle branching, simple past and past participle branched)
- (intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
- (intransitive) To produce branches.
- 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, "Life Loves Living," [2]:
- The tree throve and branched so heavily that the windows of Lower West and the Doll's Flat were darkened.
- 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, "Life Loves Living," [2]:
- (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
- (intransitive, computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
- (transitive, colloquial) To discipline (a union member) at a branch meeting.
- 2003, Paul Routledge, The Bumper Book of British Lefties (page 199)
- His staff were 'not journalists, but Communists', he maintained. Nonetheless, in 1948 his vigorous editorship took the paper's circulation to 120,000 a day. The following year, he was 'branched' by the National Union of Journalists for an intemperate attack on Fleet Street.
- 2003, Paul Routledge, The Bumper Book of British Lefties (page 199)
Related terms
- branch off
- branch out
Translations
References
Further reading
- branch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- branch (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French branche (“branch”).
Noun
branch
- branch
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
branch
- Alternative form of braunche
Etymology 2
Verb
branch
- Alternative form of braunchen
branch From the web:
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