categorization

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

the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories

a group of people or things arranged by class or category

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Venereal: From Venus, the goddess of love, this word refers to the reality of desire. With the rise of Protestantism and science, the word "disease" was tacked on in a revealing combination of categorization and moralizing. "Which disease?" John Ralston Saul

But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization. Dave Eggers

Musicians exist independent of any of the marketing terms or the categorization. Dwight Yoakam

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does. Robert Morgan

I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization. Tony Hawk

To make maps that work, we must depict categories using methods that match the structures of human mental categorization. Alan MacEachren

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