Meaning | The act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type. |
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Synonyms | categorization, categorisation, classification, compartmentalization, assortment |
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Narrower | indexing | The act of classifying and providing an index in order to make items easier to retrieve |
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reclassification | classifying something again (usually in a new category / category) |
relegation | The act of assigning (someone or something) to a particular class or category / category |
stratification | The act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata |
taxonomy | practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships |
typology | classification according to general type |
Broader | grouping | The activity of putting things together in groups |
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Spanish | categorización, clasificación |
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Catalan | categorització, classificació |
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Verbs | compartmentalise | separate into isolated compartments or categories / categories |
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