CATEGORIZATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does categorization mean? 

• CATEGORIZATION (noun)
  The noun CATEGORIZATION 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: CATEGORIZATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CATEGORIZATION (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 ("categorization" 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 "categorization"):

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

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

Derivation:

categorize (place into or assign to a category)

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 ("categorization" is a kind of...):

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

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

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)

Derivation:

categorize (place into or assign to a 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 ("categorization" is a kind of...):

grouping (the activity of putting things together in groups)

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

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)

Derivation:

categorize (place into or assign to a category)

 Context examples 

Database management involves the design and maintenance of electronic data storage systems to facilitate and optimize the categorization, selection, and retrieval of information.

(Data Base Management, NCI Thesaurus)

Graphic representation and categorization of the electrical vectors produced by the depolarization and repolarization of myocardial tissue.

(Electrocardiographic Finding, NCI Thesaurus)

A subject categorization in clinical trials based on the conditions a subject has previously met.

(Clinical Trial Branch, NCI Thesaurus)

Categorization, or the recognition that individual objects share similarities and can be grouped together, is fundamental to how we make sense of the world.

(How does the brain learn categorization for sounds? The same way it does for images, National Science Foundation)

Categorization for likelihood of perinatal transmission of group B Streptococcus to neonate.

(Group B Streptococcus Risk, NCI Thesaurus)

The categorization of a person's body frame into small, medium and large based on the measurement of wrist circumference or the breadth of the elbow.

(Body Frame Size, NCI Thesaurus)

An acute episode of focal or global neurological dysfunction caused by presumed brain, spinal cord, or retinal vascular injury as a result of hemorrhage or infarction but with insufficient information to allow categorization as ischemic or hemorrhagic.

(Cerebrovascular accident, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The discovery of similar processes for visual and auditory categorization promises important advances for how we understand learning.

(How does the brain learn categorization for sounds? The same way it does for images, National Science Foundation)