different between classify vs classification
classify
English
Etymology
From French classifier.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?klæs.?.fa?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?klæs.??fa?/
Verb
classify (third-person singular simple present classifies, present participle classifying, simple past and past participle classified)
- to identify by or divide into classes; to categorize
- to declare something a secret, especially a government secret
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:classify
Antonyms
- (to declare a secret): declassify
Related terms
- class
- classification
Translations
See also
- arrange
- distribute
- rank
Further reading
- classify in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- classify in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
classify From the web:
- what classify means
- what classify a fruit
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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
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