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classification
/ˌklæsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
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What does classification mean?
noun
- 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.
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The importance, for classification, of trifling characters, mainly depends on their being correlated with several other characters of more or less importance.
In fact, there were two types of men, the cheerful and the sodden or blue, and age seemed to determine the classification.
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But this would be to deny all value to classification, which must after all be the ultimate basis of a genealogical tree.
He was hardly interested in botany, except from the somewhat abstract point of view of classification and the systematic arrangement of species.
It is to be hoped that successive observations of a more methodical kind will gradually reinforce the accuracy of this classification of symptoms.