Classification
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Definition
(noun.) restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people.
(noun.) the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories.
(noun.) a group of people or things arranged by class or category.
Edited by Josie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of forming into a class or classes; a distibution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or affinities.
Typist: Wilhelmina
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Arrangement, disposition, distribution, grouping, reducing to order.
Edited by Henry
Examples
- This is a determinant which burrows beneath our ordinary classification of progressive and reactionary to the spiritual habits of a period. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It may be worth while to illustrate this view of classification, by taking the case of languages. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Thus I got from the plug classification to that of a 'first-class man. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The classification has the approval of the present age. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Wells takes his stand very definitely with those who regard classification as serviceable for the practical purposes of life but nevertheless a departure from the objective truth of things. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- His classif ication of plants is inferior to Aristotle's classification of animals. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He has thus boldly made a great beginning, and shows us how classification will in the future be treated. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- This tendency to exaggerate classification produces a thousand evils and injustices. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Subject matter then becomes a ready-made systematized classification of the facts and principles of the world of nature and man. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He was a fertile and stimulating thinker, and much of his great influence arose from the comprehensiven ess that led to his celebrated classification of the sciences. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Lily smiled at her classification of her friends. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- In confirmation of this view, let us glance at the classification of varieties, which are known or believed to be descended from a single species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- A recent writer (Pearson, 1900) has attempted to summarize Bacon's classification of the different bra nches of learning. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The weakest part of Hugo's classification is that which deals with natural philosophy. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In the supremely important subject of literacy, what classification yet devised can weigh the culture of masses of people? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Nevertheless, when w e compare these classifications diligently, we find very marked differences between Bacon's views and the medieval. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Names and classifications differ in their value and reality. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This case well illustrates the spirit of our classifications. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Poetry and its creations, philosophy and its researches and classifications, alike awoke the sleeping ideas in my mind, and gave me new ones. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- This is achieved principally by absorbing into your thinking a lively doubt about all classifications and general terms, for they are the basis of statistical measurement. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Our classifications will come to be, as far as they can be so made, genealogies; and will then truly give what may be called the plan of creation. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It includes making distinctions, definitions, divisions, and classifications for the mere sake of making them--with no objective in experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Our classifications are often plainly influenced by chains of affinities. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
Typist: Paul