# classification

Pronunciation: say "klas-i-fi-KAY-shuhn" /ˌklæsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

## Noun

1. The act of arranging things into groups or classes according to shared qualities or relationships.
   - Simple: The act of sorting things into groups based on what they share.
   - _The classification of plants by their flowering patterns took botanists many years._
   - _Her job involved the classification of customer complaints into recurring categories._

## Origin

The word was borrowed from French classification.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/classification (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).