Word Meanings - CLASSIFICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. Artificial classification. See under Artifitial.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CLASSIFICATION)

• System
• Method
• scheme
• order
• regularity
• classification
• arrangement
• rule
• plan

Related words: (words related to CLASSIFICATION)

• REGULARITY
  The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
• SYSTEMATIZE
  To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before medicine
• METHODIST
  Of or pertaining to the sect of Methodists; as, Methodist hymns; a Methodist elder.
• METHOD
  Classification; a mode or system of classifying natural objects according to certain common characteristics; as, the method of Theophrastus; the method of Ray; the Linnæan method. Syn. -- Order; system; rule; regularity; way; manner; mode; course;
• SYSTEMLESS
  Not agreeing with some artificial system of classification. (more info) 1. Being without system.
• SYSTEMIZATION
  The act or process of systematizing; systematization.
• SYSTEMATISM
  The reduction of facts or principles to a system. Dunglison.
• SYSTEMATIST
  1. One who forms a system, or reduces to system. 2. One who adheres to a system.
• METHODIZE
  To reduce to method; to dispose in due order; to arrange in a convenient manner; as, to methodize one's work or thoughts. Spectator.
• SYSTEMATIZATION
  The act or operation of systematizing.
• METHODIC; METHODICAL
  1. Arranged with regard to method; disposed in a suitable manner, or in a manner to illustrate a subject, or to facilitate practical observation; as, the methodical arrangement of arguments; a methodical treatise. "Methodical regularity." Addison.
• METHODIOS
  The art and principles of method.
• ORDERLY
  1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good
• METHODIZER
  One who methodizes.
• 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. Artificial classification. See under Artifitial.
• SYSTEMATIC; SYSTEMATICAL
  Affecting successively the different parts of the system or set of nervous fibres; as, systematic degeneration. Systematic theology. See under Theology. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to system; consisting in system; methodical; formed
• METHODOLOGICAL
  Of or pertaining to methodology.
• SYSTEMIC
  Of or pertaining to the general system, or the body as a whole; as, systemic death, in distinction from local death; systemic circulation, in distinction from pulmonic circulation; systemic diseases. Systemic death. See the Note under Death, n.,
• METHODISM
  The system of doctrines, polity, and worship, of the sect called Methodists. Bp. Warburton.
• ORDERLINESS
  The state or quality of being orderly.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• BERTILLON SYSTEM
  A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.
• CONTINENTAL SYSTEM
  The system of commercial blockade aiming to exclude England from commerce with the Continent instituted by the Berlin decree, which Napoleon I. issued from Berlin Nov. 21, 1806, declaring the British Isles to be in a state of blockade, and British
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
• CHAUTAUQUA SYSTEM OF EDUCATION
  The system of home study established in connection with the summer schools assembled at Chautauqua, N. Y., by the Methodist Episcopal bishop, J. H. Vincent.
• MISARRANGEMENT
  Wrong arrangement.
• ACCORDER
  One who accords, assents, or concedes.
• TANDEM SYSTEM
  = Cascade system.