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What is the noun for classification?

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class
  1. (countable) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
  2. (sociology, countable) A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes; upper class, middle class and working class.
  3. (uncountable) The division of society into classes.
  4. (uncountable) Admirable behavior; elegance.
  5. (education, countable and uncountable) A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
  6. A series of classes covering a single subject.
  7. (countable) A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.
  8. (countable) A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
  9. (taxonomy, countable) A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.
  10. Best of its kind.
  11. (mathematics) A collection of sets definable by a shared property.
  12. (military) A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.
  13. (object-oriented programming, countable) A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set.
  14. One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.
  15. Synonyms:
  16. Examples:
    1. “This class of sports car must have cost you quite a lot of money.”
      “Officials largely came from a class of moderately wealthy, educated landowners whom historians referred to as the gentry.”
      “I currently have a French class every weekend with a native Francophone.”
classifier
  1. Someone who classifies.
  2. (linguistics) A word or morpheme used in some languages (such as Japanese and American Sign Language), in certain contexts (such as counting), to indicate the semantic class to which something belongs.
  3. A machine that separates particles or objects of different size or density.
  4. (computing) A program or algorithm that classifies.
  5. (object-oriented programming) Object which creates the class instances.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “One Swiss study examined the question of whether chronic course is a desirable classifier in the diagnostic system of mood disorders.”
      “A scientist by training, he has much respect for Carl Linnaeus, the 18th-century classifier of plants and animals.”
      “The classifier screens the informative features to build decision trees based on the information entropy concept.”
classis
  1. (obsolete) A class or order; sort; kind.
  2. (religion) An ecclesiastical body or judicatory in certain churches, such as the Reformed Dutch. It is intermediate between the consistory and the synod, and corresponds to the presbytery in the Presbyterian church.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Having marked this on its margin, we have sent it to the Rev. Brethren of the classis.”
      “An inscription tells us that we have here represented the city of classis, the seaport of Ravenna.”
      “The Solid 100 is a classis aluminium frame which is frequently used by art galleries and companies.”
classer
  1. One who classes or classifies
  2. (mostly in compounds) A member of a particular class
  3. Examples:
    1. “He is a wool classer and self-confessed maestro sheep handler and has lanolin running through his veins.”
      “He grew up on a wheat and sheep farm and became a wool classer when he left school.”
      “Before establishing himself as a popular country and western singer, he worked country New South Wales as a wool classer.”
classification
  1. The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The second stage consists of the painstaking classification of the different theories.”
      “A glance within each classification of expense reveals that higher income meant more dollars spent for each item.”
      “Investigation of Johannine territoriality next leads us to a native classification of space which is communicated by Jesus himself.”
classitis
  1. (derogatory) The practice of authoring stylesheets with redundant and semantically unhelpful classes.
classified
classifiability
  1. The state or condition of being classifiable.
classness
  1. (especially in combination) The condition of being a member of a (specified) class
classlessness
  1. The state or quality of being classless.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “After all, it's America that is the young country, the republic, the land of informality and classlessness.”
      “Everyone knows this notion of classlessness is false, since nothing stimulates petty snobberies more immediately than a garden.”
      “All we require is a sense of classlessness, of integrity and a bit of long-term economic sense.”
classhood
  1. The property of being a class or category.
classifieds
  1. plural of classified
  2. A section of a newspaper, magazine or web site containing classified advertisements.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Short of the classifieds, how would you suggest one go about subletting his or her home.”
      “Or maybe the story about Seagal was a concoction to start with, and he won't be needing to peruse The Echo's real estate classifieds.”
      “He already had a listing of local restaurants, as well as a section for free local classifieds.”
classes
classifications
  1. plural of classification
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Congress needs to restore the original intent of the political asylum law and resist efforts to develop new classifications of asylees.”
      “Figures 1 and 2 depict various tympanogram tracings based on variations of the original Liden and Jerger classifications.”
      “Older classifications divide the bilbies and bandicoots into two families, Thylacomyidae and Peramelidae, respectively.”
classifiers
  1. plural of classifier
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “They are very complex and require that indexers and classifiers have extensive training.”
      “The classifiers systematically created a new beginning or clearing for the new information system.”
      “Then new slides were prepared from the same blood cultures and counted twice by image analysis, employing classifiers A and B, respectively.”
classers
  1. plural of classer
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