Definition of Classification

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Definition of Classification
	Classification The act of forming into a class or classes; a distibution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or affinities. Related Definitions: According, Act, Affinities, As, Class, Classes, Common, Families, Forming, Into, Of, Or, Some, The, To

Classification Quotations

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.
Irving Babbitt

Science is the systematic classification of experience.
George Henry Lewes

The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.
William H. Seward

It seems we will continue to have problems with this classification and it may be because it comes under the heading of creation rather than preservation.
Walter Lang

Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.
J. Philippe Rushton

I would never jeopardize classified information to be brought out to the public. This information is all open source. There is no reason to worry about classification. It is simply an attempt by bureaucrats to cover their rear ends.
Curt Weldon

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
Roland Barthes

It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification.
Roman Jakobson

In teaching, I wanted to offer a general pharmacology course based on chemical principles, biochemical classification and mathematical modelling. In the event I achieved neither of my ambitions.
James W. Black

For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status.
Kenneth Burke

Classification Translations

classification in French is classification
classification in German is Einstufung, Einordnung, Klassifikation
classification in Swedish is klassifikation

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