categorization

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English

Alternative forms

(mainly British) categorisation

Etymology

From categorize +‎ -ation.

Noun

categorization (countable and uncountable, plural categorizations)

A group of things arranged by category; a classification.
The process of sorting or arranging things into categories or classes.
- 2013, James Gleick, "Wikipedia's Women Problem", New York Review of Books, 29 Apr 2013:
  It’s fair to say that Wikipedia has spent far more time considering the philosophical ramifications of categorization than Aristotle and Kant ever did.

Related terms

Translations

the process of sorting or arranging things into categories or classes

Catalan: categorització f
Czech: kategorizace f, třídění (cs) n, klasifikace (cs) f
Dutch: categoriseren (nl) n
Finnish: luokittelu (fi)
French: catégorisation (fr) f
Galician: categorización f
German: Kategorisierung f

Greek: κατηγοριοποίηση (el) f (katigoriopoíisi), ταξινόμηση (el) f (taxinómisi), κατάταξη (el) f (katátaxi)
Italian: categorizzazione (it) f
Maori: whakarōpūtanga
Polish: kategoryzacja (pl) f, klasyfikacja (pl) f
Portuguese: categorização (pt) f
Romanian: categorisire (ro)
Spanish: categorización (es) f

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