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 objects, events, or ideas), organizing and classifying experience by associating them to 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
Master data management (MDM) is a technology-enabled discipline in which business and information technology work together to ensure the uniformity, accuracy, stewardship, semantic consistency and accountability of the enterprise's official shared ...
) or for profitability (e.g. by
Activity-based costing
Activity-based costing (ABC) is a costing method that identifies activities in an organization and assigns the cost of each activity to all products and services according to the actual consumption by each. Therefore, this model assigns more i ...
)
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Classified information
Classified information is material that a government body deems to be sensitive information that must be protected. Access is restricted by law or regulation to particular groups of people with the necessary security clearance and need to k ...
, 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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