Classification
Classification is a process related to categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated and understood.
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It may refer to:
Business, organizations, and economics
- Classification of customers, for marketing (as in Master data management) or for profitability (e.g. by Activity-based costing)
- Classified Information, as in legal or government documentation
- Job classification, as in job analysis
- Standard Industrial Classification, economic activities
Mathematics
- Attribute-value system, a basic knowledge representation framework
- Classification theorems in mathematics
- Mathematical classification, a collection of sets which can be unambiguously defined by a property that all its members share
- Statistical classification, identifying to which of a set of categories a new observation belongs, on the basis of a training set of data
Media
- Classification (literature), a figure of speech linking a proper noun to a common noun using the or other articles
- Document classification, a problem in library science, information science and computer science
- Classified information, sensitive information to which access is restricted by law or regulation to particular classes of people
- Library classification, a system of coding, assorting and organizing library materials according to their subject
- Image classification in computer vision
- Motion picture rating system, for film classification
Science
- Scientific classification (disambiguation)
- Biological classification of organisms
- Chemical classification
- Medical classification, the process of transforming descriptions of medical diagnoses and procedures into universal medical code numbers
- Taxonomic classification, also known as classification of species
- Cladistics, an approach using similarities
Organizations involved in classification
Other uses
- An industrial process such as mechanical screening for sorting materials by size, shape, and density, etc
- Civil service classification, personnel grades in government
- Classification of swords
- Classification of wine
- Classification society, a non-governmental organization that establishes and maintains technical standards for the construction and operation of ships and offshore structures
- Locomotive classification
- Product classification
- Security classification, information to which access is restricted by law or regulation
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See also
- Class (disambiguation)
- Classified (disambiguation)
- Classifier (disambiguation)
- Data classification (disambiguation)
- Order
- Taxonomy (disambiguation)
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