classification

noun
/ˌklæsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁-der. Proto-Italic *klāssis Latin classislbor. French classe Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-fakāō Latin -ficōder. French -ifier French classifier Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ation Middle French -ation French -ation French classificationbor. English classification Borrowed from French classification.

  1. borrowed from classification

Definitions

  1. The act of forming into a class or classes

    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.

    • Near-synonyms: categorization, classifying, categorizing, typing, sorting

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at classification. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at classification. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at classification

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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