categorization
Definitions
The action or process of placing things into groups according to shared characteristics.
The act of assigning a label or class to an item based on its properties.
Examples
The librarian spent the afternoon working on the categorization of the new book collection.
A clear categorization of the data helped the research team identify key trends more efficiently.
The categorization of these plants into distinct species is based on their unique genetic markers.
Synonyms
classification taxonomy grouping sorting codification arrangement indexing