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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (4)

1. the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type;
[syn: categorization, categorisation, classification, compartmentalization, compartmentalisation, assortment]

2. a group of people or things arranged by class or category;
[syn: classification, categorization, categorisation]

3. the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories;
[syn: classification, categorization, categorisation, sorting]

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


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Classification \Clas`si*fi*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. F. classification.] The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or affinities. [1913 Webster] Artificial classification. (Science) See under Artifitial. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

classification n 1: the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type [syn: categorization, categorisation, classification, compartmentalization, compartmentalisation, assortment] 2: a group of people or things arranged by class or category [syn: classification, categorization, categorisation] 3: the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories [syn: classification, categorization, categorisation, sorting] 4: restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people [ant: declassification]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

38 Moby Thesaurus words for "classification": antonomasia, appraisal, assessment, binomial nomenclature, biosystematics, biosystematy, categorization, class, evaluation, factoring, family, gauging, genus, glossology, grouping, identification, kingdom, nomenclature, onomastics, onomatology, order, orismology, phylum, place-names, place-naming, polyonymy, sifting, sifting out, sorting, sorting out, species, systematics, taxonomy, terminology, toponymy, trinomialism, weighing, winnowing