Classification

Classification is a process related to categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated and understood. Classification is the grouping of related facts into classes. It may also refer to a process which brings together like things and separates unlike things.

Business, organizations, and economics

Classification of customers, for marketing (as in Master data management) or for profitability (e.g. by Activity-based costing)
Classified information, as in legal or government documentation
Job classification, as in job analysis
Standard Industrial Classification, economic activities

Mathematics

Attribute-value system, a basic knowledge representation framework
Classification theorems in mathematics
Mathematical classification, grouping mathematical objects based on a property that all those objects share
Statistical classification, identifying to which of a set of categories a new observation belongs, on the basis of a training set of data

Media

Classification (literature), a figure of speech linking a proper noun to a common noun using the or other articles
Decimal classification, decimal classification systems
Document classification, a problem in library science, information science and computer science
- Classified information, sensitive information to which access is restricted by law or regulation to particular classes of people
- Library classification, a system of coding, assorting and organizing library materials according to their subject
Image classification in computer vision
Motion picture rating system, for film classification

Science

Scientific classification (disambiguation)
- Biological classification of organisms
- Chemical classification
- Medical classification, the process of transforming descriptions of medical diagnoses and procedures into universal medical code numbers
- Taxonomic classification, also known as classification of species
  - Cladistics, an approach using similarities

Organizations involved in classification

International Society for Knowledge Organization

Other uses

An industrial process such as mechanical screening for sorting materials by size, shape, density, etc.
Civil service classification, personnel grades in government
Classification of swords
Classification of wine
Locomotive classification
Product classification
Security classification, information to which access is restricted by law or regulation
Ship classification society, a non-governmental organization that establishes and maintains technical standards for the construction and operation of ships and offshore structures

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