1 [U] the act or process of putting people or things into a group or class (= of CLASSIFYING them):
a style of music that defies classification (= is like no other)
2 [C] a group, class, division, etc. into which sb or sth is put
3 [U] (biology) the act of putting animals, plants, etc. into groups, classes or divisions according to their characteristics:
The classification of bony fish is extremely complicated.
4 [C] (technical) a system of arranging books, tapes, magazines, etc. in a library into groups according to their subject
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is classification a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, classification is tagged as noun.
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