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- DictionaryClas·si·fi·ca·tion/ˌklasəfəˈkāSHən/
noun
- 1. the action or process of classifying something according to shared qualities or characteristics: "the classification of disease according to symptoms"
Britannica Dictionary definition of CLASSIFICATION. 1. [noncount] : the act or process of putting people or things into groups based on ways that they are alike. a system of classification. the classification of diseases/drugs. biological classification. the classification of new species. 2.
noun. the placing of animals and plants in a series of increasingly specialized groups because of similarities in structure, origin, molecular composition, etc, that indicate a common relationship. The major groups are domain or superkingdom, kingdom, phylum (in animals) or division (in plants), class, order, family, genus, and species.
Definition of classification noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
the assignment of organisms to groups within a system of categories distinguished by structure, origin, etc. The usual series of categories is phylum (or, especially in botany, division), class, order, family, genus, species, and variety.
[countable] a group, class, division, etc. into which someone or something is put. [uncountable] (biology) the act of putting animals, plants, etc. into groups, classes, or divisions according to their characteristics The classification of bony fish is extremely complicated.
1. The act, process, or result of classifying. 2. A category or class. 3. Biology The systematic grouping of organisms into categories on the basis of evolutionary or structural relationships between them; taxonomy. clas′si·fi·ca·to′ri·ly (klăs′ə-fĭ-kə-tôr′ə-lē, klə-sĭf′ĭ-) adv.
Definitions of classification. noun. the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories. synonyms: categorisation, categorization, sorting. see more. noun. the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type. synonyms: assortment, categorisation, categorization, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization.
