| 单词 |
classification |
| 释义 |
classification|ˌklæsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən|
[n. of action, f. as classify: see -fication. So in mod.F.]
1. The action of classifying or arranging in classes, according to common characteristics or affinities; assignment to the proper class.
1790Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. V. 332 Montesquieu observed very justly, that in their classification of the citizens the great legislators of antiquity made the greatest display of their powers. 1804Abernethy Surg. Observ. 18 In attempting a classification of tumours. 1847Carpenter Zool. §2 The object of all Classification..[is] to bring together those beings which most resemble each other and to separate those that differ. 1874Blackie Self Cult. 19 Nothing helps the memory so much as order and classification.
2. The result of classifying; a systematic distribution, allocation, or arrangement, in a class or classes; esp. of things which form the subject-matter of a science or of a methodic inquiry.
1794Sullivan View Nat. II. 196 De Saussure gives us this brief classification of volcanic substances. 1834J. M. Good Study of Med. (4th ed.) I p.x, A syllabus of its classification for the purpose of lecturing from. 1856Sir B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. I. vi. 230 The classification of faculties which these writers have made is altogether artificial. 1860Maury Phys. Geog. Sea. xi. §505 Red fogs..do not properly come under our classification of sea fogs. Mod. Several classifications have been made. |
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单词 classificator 释义 classificator rare.[agent-n. f. assumed L. *classificre to classif......