different between classification vs typology

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

type +? -ology

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta??p?l.?.d??i/

Noun

typology (countable and uncountable, plural typologies)

1. The study of symbolic representation, especially of the origin and meaning of Scripture types.
2. The systematic classification of the types of something according to their common characteristics.
3. (archaeology) The result of the classification of things according to their characteristics.
4. (linguistics) Classification of languages according to their linguistic trait (as opposed to ancestrality like Romance languages).
5. (religion) The doctrine of Scripture types or figures.

Translations

Derived terms

Related terms

• type
• typification

See also

• taxonomy
• value domain

Anagrams

• logotypy