classifier

English

Etymology

classify + -er.

Pronunciation

Noun

classifier (plural classifiers)

  1. Someone who classifies.
  2. (linguistics) A word or morpheme used in some languages (such as Japanese and American Sign Language), in certain contexts (such as counting), to indicate the semantic class to which something belongs.
  3. A machine that separates particles or objects of different size or density.
  4. (computing) A program or algorithm that classifies.
  5. (object-oriented programming) Object which creates the class instances.

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French

Etymology

classe + -ifier

Verb

classifier

  1. to classify

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