different between classification vs diagnosis

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

Etymology

From Latin diagn?sis, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diágn?sis), from ??????????? (diagign?sk?, “to discern”), from ??? (diá, “through”) + ???????? (gign?sk?, “to know”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da????n??s?s/

Noun

diagnosis (countable and uncountable, plural diagnoses)

1. (medicine) The identification of the nature and cause of an illness.
2. The identification of the nature and cause of something (of any nature).
   • 1887, Charles L. Reade and Compton Reade, Charles Reade, Dramatist, Novelist, Journalist: A Memoir

     The quick eye for effects, the clear diagnosis of men's minds, and the love of epigram.

   • 1887, James Payn, Glow-worm tales

     My diagnosis of his character proved correct.

3. (taxonomy) A written description of a species or other taxon serving to distinguish that species from all others. Especially, a description written in Latin and published.

Derived terms

Related terms

• diagnose
• diagnostic
• diagnostics

Translations

Verb

diagnosis

1. (nonstandard) Synonym of diagnose
   • 2013, Donald A. Norman, The Design of Everyday Things

Further reading

• diagnosis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• diagnosis in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• diagnosis at OneLook Dictionary Search

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin diagn?sis, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diágn?sis), from ??????????? (diagign?sk?, “to discern”), from ??? (diá, “through”) + ???????? (gign?sk?, “to know”). Doublet of diagnosa and diagnose.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dia??nos?s]
• Hyphenation: di?ag?no?sis

Noun

diagnosis (plural diagnosis-diagnosis, first-person possessive diagnosisku, second-person possessive diagnosismu, third-person possessive diagnosisnya)

1. diagnosis:
   1. (medicine) The identification of the nature and cause of an illness.
   2. The identification of the nature and cause of something (of any nature).

Alternative forms

• diagnosa
• diagnose

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “diagnosis” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -osis

Noun

diagnosis f (plural diagnosis)

1. diagnosis