CATEGORISATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does categorisation mean? 

• CATEGORISATION (noun)
  The noun CATEGORISATION has 3 senses:

1. a group of people or things arranged by class or category

2. the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories

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

  Familiarity information: CATEGORISATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CATEGORISATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of people or things arranged by class or category

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

categorisation; categorization; classification

Hypernyms ("categorisation" is a kind of...):

arrangement (an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "categorisation"):

dichotomy; duality (being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses)

trichotomy (being threefold; a classification into three parts or subclasses)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

categorisation; categorization; classification; sorting

Hypernyms ("categorisation" is a kind of...):

basic cognitive process (cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "categorisation"):

coordination (being of coordinate importance, rank, or degree)

appraisal; assessment (the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth)

ascription; attribution (assigning to a cause or source)

ascription; attribution (assigning some quality or character to a person or thing)

cross-classification; cross-division (classification according to more than one attribute at the same time)

subsumption (incorporating something under a more general category)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

assortment; categorisation; categorization; classification; compartmentalisation; compartmentalization

Hypernyms ("categorisation" is a kind of...):

grouping (the activity of putting things together in groups)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "categorisation"):

indexing (the act of classifying and providing an index in order to make items easier to retrieve)

reclassification (classifying something again (usually in a new category))

relegation (the act of assigning (someone or something) to a particular class or category)

stratification (the act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata)

taxonomy (practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships)

typology (classification according to general type)