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classification

/ˌklæsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

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What does classification mean?

noun

  1. 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.
Charles DarwinOn the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for LifeProject Gutenberg ebook #1228
In fact, there were two types of men, the cheerful and the sodden or blue, and age seemed to determine the classification.
Jack LondonThe People of the AbyssProject Gutenberg ebook #1688
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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.
A. C. (Albert Charles) SewardDarwin and Modern ScienceProject Gutenberg ebook #1909
He was hardly interested in botany, except from the somewhat abstract point of view of classification and the systematic arrangement of species.
Georges Victor LegrosFabre, Poet of ScienceTranslated by Bernard MiallProject Gutenberg ebook #3489
It is to be hoped that successive observations of a more methodical kind will gradually reinforce the accuracy of this classification of symptoms.
Enrico FerriCriminal SociologyProject Gutenberg ebook #477