categorization

cat·e·go·rize

C0160400 (kăt′ĭ-gə-rīz′)tr.v. cat·e·go·rized, cat·e·go·riz·ing, cat·e·go·riz·es To put into a category or categories; classify.

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cat′e·go·riz′a·ble adj.cat′e·go·ri·za′tion (-gər-ĭ-zā′shən) n.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	categorization - a group of people or things arranged by class or categorycategorisation, classificationarrangement - an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging; "a flower arrangement"dichotomy, duality - being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses; "the dichotomy between eastern and western culture"trichotomy - being threefold; a classification into three parts or subclasses
	2.	categorization - the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categoriescategorisation, sorting, classificationcoordination - being of coordinate importance, rank, or degreebasic cognitive process - cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledgeappraisal, assessment - the classification of someone or something with respect to its worthascription, attribution - assigning to a cause or source; "the attribution of lighting to an expression of God's wrath"; "he questioned the attribution of the painting to Picasso"ascription, attribution - assigning some quality or character to a person or thing; "the attribution of language to birds"; "the ascription to me of honors I had not earned"cross-classification, cross-division - classification according to more than one attribute at the same time; "the cross-classification of cases was done by age and sex"subsumption - incorporating something under a more general category
	3.	categorization - the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same typeclassification, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization, assortment, categorisationgrouping - the activity of putting things together in groupsindexing - the act of classifying and providing an index in order to make items easier to retrievereclassification - classifying something again (usually in a new category)relegation - the act of assigning (someone or something) to a particular class or categorystratification - the act or process or arranging persons into classes or social stratataxonomy - practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationshipstypology - classification according to general type

categorization

nounA way or condition of being arranged:arrangement, classification, deployment, disposal, disposition, distribution, formation, grouping, layout, lineup, order, organization, placement, sequence.

Translations

κατηγοριοποίησηcatégorisation