different between classification vs voicing

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

• IPA^(key): /?v??s??/
• Rhymes: -??s??

Etymology 1

From voice +? -ing.

Verb

voicing

1. present participle of voice

Etymology 2

From voice +? -ing.

Noun

voicing (plural voicings)

1. (music) The final regulation of the pitch and tone of any sound-producing entity, especially of an organ or similar musical instrument.
2. (music) A particular arrangement of notes to form a chord.
3. (phonetics) The articulatory process in which the vocal cords vibrate.
4. (phonetics, phonology) A classification of speech sounds that tend to be associated with vocal cord vibration.
5. (phonology) A phonological process that turns a voiceless sound into a voiced one.

Derived terms

• devoicing
• de-voicing
• revoicing
• re-voicing

Related terms

Translations

See also

• accordatura