categorizing

Definitions

The act of placing items, people, or ideas into specific groups or classes based on shared characteristics.

The process of identifying and labeling information to organize it systematically.

Examples

The librarian spent the entire afternoon categorizing the new arrivals by genre.

She is currently categorizing her research data to identify emerging patterns.

Synonyms

classifying sorting grouping labeling indexing organizing cataloging

Antonyms

mixing jumbling disorganizing confusing scrambling integrating unifying