classification |ˌklasəfəˈkā sh ən|
noun
the action or process of classifying something according to shared qualities or characteristics : the classification of disease according to symptoms.
• Biology the arrangement of animals and plants in taxonomic groups according to their observed similarities (including at least kingdom and phylum in animals, division in plants, and class, order, family, genus, and species).
• another term for taxonomy .
• a category into which something is put.
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