categorization
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- (mainly British) categorisation
Etymology[edit]
From categorize + -ation.
Noun[edit]
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 April 29, James Gleick, “Wikipedia's Women Problem”, in New York Review of Books:
- 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[edit]
Translations[edit]
the process of sorting or arranging things into categories or classes
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