categorization
- For information about Wiktionary categories, see Wiktionary:Categorization
English
Alternative forms
- (mainly British) categorisation
Etymology
From categorize + -ation.
Noun
categorization (countable and uncountable, plural categorizations)
- A group of things arranged by category; a classification.
- The process of sorting or arranging things into categories or classes.
- 2013, James Gleick, "Wikipedia's Women Problem", New York Review of Books, 29 Apr 2013:
- It’s fair to say that Wikipedia has spent far more time considering the philosophical ramifications of categorization than Aristotle and Kant ever did.
- 2013, James Gleick, "Wikipedia's Women Problem", New York Review of Books, 29 Apr 2013:
Related terms
- category
- categorize
Translations
the process of sorting or arranging things into categories or classes
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