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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
- what classification is a snail
structure
English
Etymology
From Middle French structure, from Latin struct?ra (“a fitting together, adjustment, building, erection, a building, edifice, structure”), from struere, past participle structus (“pile up, arrange, assemble, build”). Compare construct, instruct, destroy, etc.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?st??kt??(?)/, [?st??kt??(?)]
- (US) IPA(key): /?st??kt??/
Noun
structure (countable and uncountable, plural structures)
- A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.
- Synonym: formation
- The underlying shape of a solid.
- Synonym: formation
- The overall form or organization of something.
- Synonyms: makeup, configuration; see also Thesaurus:composition
- A set of rules defining behaviour.
- (computing) Several pieces of data treated as a unit.
- (fishing, uncountable) Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend to attract fish
- A body, such as a political party, with a cohesive purpose or outlook.
- (logic) A set along with a collection of finitary functions and relations.
Derived terms
- antistructure
Translations
Verb
structure (third-person singular simple present structures, present participle structuring, simple past and past participle structured)
- (transitive) To give structure to; to arrange.
Translations
Related terms
- infrastructure
- macrostructure
- microstructure
- restructure
- structural
- structuralism
- structuralist
- structured
- substructure
- superstructure
- unstructured
Further reading
- structure on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Etymology
From Latin structura
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?yk.ty?/
- Rhymes: -y?
- Homophone: structures
Noun
structure f (plural structures)
- structure
- Le plain-chant est la paraphrase aérienne et mouvante de l'immobile structure des cathédrales. (Huysmans, En route, 1895)
Synonyms
- agencement
- disposition
- ordre
- organisation
Antonyms
- anarchie
- chaos
Derived terms
- infrastructure
- structural
- structuralisme
- structuraliste
- structurant
- structuration
- structurer
- déstructurer
- restructurer
- structuration
- structure de données
- structurel
- structurellement
- substructure
- superstructure
References
- “structure” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Further reading
- “structure” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Participle
str?ct?re
- vocative masculine singular of str?ct?rus
structure From the web:
- what structure connects osteocytes
- what structure is similar to the endoplasmic reticulum
- what structures are found in all cells
- what structure connects the epididymis to the body
- what structures meet at the neuromuscular junction
- what structure supports the axon from within
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