classification

1. 1.

   the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type

   Synonymscategorizationcategorisationcompartmentalizationcompartmentalisationassortment

   Broadergrouping

   Narrowerindexingreclassificationrelegationstratificationtaxonomytypology
2. 2.

   a group of people or things arranged by class or category

   Synonymscategorizationcategorisation

   Broaderarrangement

   Narrowerdichotomytrichotomy
3. 3.

   the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories

   Synonymscategorizationcategorisationsorting

   Broaderbasic cognitive process

   Narrowercoordinationappraisalattributioncross-classificationsubsumption
4. 4.

   restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people

   Antonymsdeclassification

   Broaderrestriction

Other forms of classification

plural

classifications·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about classification

What does classification mean?

classification means "the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in classification?

classification has 5 syllables: clas-si-fi-ca-tion. The stress falls on "ca". In IPA it is /ˌklæsəfəˈkeɪʃən/.

What is another word for classification?

Close synonyms include categorization, categorisation, compartmentalization, compartmentalisation, assortment. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of classification?

The recorded antonyms are declassification.

Is classification a common word?

classification is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with classification?

104 words rhyme with classification. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.