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Classification

The act of forming into a class or classes; a distibution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or affinities.

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Appraisal 76% connected

A valuation by an authorized person; an appraisement.

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Ascription 76% connected

The act of ascribing, imputing, or affirming to belong; also, that which is ascribed.

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Assessment 76% connected

The act of assessing; the act of determining an amount to be paid; as, an assessment of damages, or of taxes; an assessment of the members of a club.

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Attribution 76% connected

The act of attributing or ascribing, as a quality, character, or function, to a thing or person, an effect to a cause.

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Coordination 76% connected

The act of coordinating; the act of putting in the same order, class, rank, dignity, etc.; as, the coordination of the executive, the legislative, an…

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Dichotomy 76% connected

A cutting in two; a division.

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Duality 76% connected

The quality or condition of being two or twofold; dual character or usage.

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Indexing 76% connected

of Index

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Relegation 76% connected

The act of relegating, or the state of being relegated; removal; banishment; exile.

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Stratification 76% connected

The act or process of laying in strata, or the state of being laid in the form of strata, or layers.

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Subsumption 76% connected

The act of subsuming, or of including under another.

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Taxonomy 76% connected

That division of the natural sciences which treats of the classification of animals and plants; the laws or principles of classification.

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Trichotomy 76% connected

Division into three parts.

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Typology 76% connected

A discourse or treatise on types.

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Arrangement 76% connected

The act of arranging or putting in an orderly condition; the state of being arranged or put in order; disposition in suitable form.

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Confinement 76% connected

Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.

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Grouping 76% connected

of Group

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Restriction 76% connected

The act of restricting, or state of being restricted; confinement within limits or bounds.

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Classify 74% connected

To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters.

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Classify 74% connected

To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters.

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Assortment 92% connected

Act of assorting, or distributing into sorts, kinds, or classes.

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Sorting 92% connected

of Sort

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