categorisation

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Noun	1.	categorisation - a group of people or things arranged by class or category categorization, classification arrangement - an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging; "a flower arrangement" dichotomy, duality - being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses; "the dichotomy between eastern and western culture" trichotomy - being threefold; a classification into three parts or subclasses
	2.	categorisation - the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories categorization, sorting, classification coordination - being of coordinate importance, rank, or degree basic cognitive process - cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge appraisal, assessment - the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth ascription, attribution - assigning to a cause or source; "the attribution of lighting to an expression of God's wrath"; "he questioned the attribution of the painting to Picasso" ascription, attribution - assigning some quality or character to a person or thing; "the attribution of language to birds"; "the ascription to me of honors I had not earned" cross-classification, cross-division - classification according to more than one attribute at the same time; "the cross-classification of cases was done by age and sex" subsumption - incorporating something under a more general category
	3.	categorisation - the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type classification, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization, assortment, categorization grouping - the activity of putting things together in groups indexing - the act of classifying and providing an index in order to make items easier to retrieve reclassification - classifying something again (usually in a new category) relegation - the act of assigning (someone or something) to a particular class or category stratification - the act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata taxonomy - practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships typology - classification according to general type