Classification is a process related to
categorization
Categorization is the ability and activity of recognizing shared features or similarities between the elements of the experience of the world (such as Object (philosophy), objects, events, or ideas), organizing and classifying experience by a ...
, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated and understood.
Classification is the grouping of related facts into classes.
It may also refer to:
Business, organizations, and economics
* Classification of customers, for marketing (as in
Master data management) or for profitability (e.g. by
Activity-based costing)
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Classified information, as in legal or government documentation
* Job classification, as in
job analysis
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Standard Industrial Classification, economic activities
Mathematics
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Attribute-value system, a basic knowledge representation framework
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Classification theorems in mathematics
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Mathematical classification, grouping mathematical objects based on a property that all those objects share
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Statistical classification, identifying to which of a set of categories a new observation belongs, on the basis of a training set of data
Media
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Classification (literature), a figure of speech linking a proper noun to a common noun using ''the'' or other articles
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Decimal classification, decimal classification systems
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Document classification, a problem in library science, information science and computer science
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Classified information, sensitive information to which access is restricted by law or regulation to particular classes of people
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Library classification, a system of coding, assorting and organizing library materials according to their subject
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Image classification in computer vision
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Motion picture rating system, for film classification
Science
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Scientific classification (disambiguation) Scientific classification is a practice and science of categorization.
Scientific classification may also refer to:
* Chemical classification
* Mathematical classification, construction of subsets into a set
* Statistical classification, the mathe ...
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Biological classification of organisms
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Chemical classification
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Medical classification, the process of transforming descriptions of medical diagnoses and procedures into universal medical code numbers
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Taxonomic classification, also known as classification of species
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Cladistics, an approach using similarities
Organizations involved in classification
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International Society for Knowledge Organization
Other uses
* An industrial
process such as
mechanical screening for sorting materials by size, shape, and density, etc.
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Civil service
The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil servants hired on professional merit rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leaders ...
classification, personnel grades in government
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Classification of swords
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Classification of wine
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Classification society, a non-governmental organization that establishes and maintains technical standards for the construction and operation of ships and offshore structures
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Locomotive classification
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Product classification
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Security classification, information to which access is restricted by law or regulation
See also
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Class (disambiguation)
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Classified (disambiguation)
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Classifier (disambiguation)
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Data classification (disambiguation)
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Order
Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to:
* Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood
* Heterarchy, a system of organization wherein the elements have the potential to be ranked a number of d ...
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Taxonomy
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