different between classification vs classes

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French classification

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?klæs?f??ke???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

classification (countable and uncountable, plural classifications)

1. 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.

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)

1. classification

Further reading

• “classification” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Pronunciation

Forms of noun and verb class:

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kl??s?z/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /klæs?z/
• (NYC) IPA^(key): /kle?s?z/
• (Ireland, Scotland, Northern England) IPA^(key): /klas?z/
• Rhymes: -??s?z, -æs?z
• Hyphenation: class?es

Plural of classis:

• IPA^(key): /?klæsi?z/
• Hyphenation: clas?ses

Noun

classes

1. plural of class
2. plural of classis

Verb

classes

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of class

Anagrams

• sacless

Catalan

Noun

classes

1. plural of classe

French

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -as

Verb

classes

1. second-person singular present indicative of classer
2. second-person singular present subjunctive of classer

Interlingua

Noun

classes

1. plural of classe

Latin

Noun

class?s

1. nominative plural of classis
2. accusative plural of classis
3. vocative plural of classis

References

• classes in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• classes in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Noun

classes

1. plural of classe