Meaning & use
Classifications
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Systems or categories into which things are grouped based on shared characteristics.
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Biologists use classifications to organize species by shared traits.
The report listed several classifications of security risk.
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Widely used across science, library science, and bureaucracy to organize information into structured, hierarchical categories.
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categoriesgroupingstaxonomies
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