categorisation

A noun referring to the process or act of arranging people or things into classes or categories based on shared characteristics, or the resulting group or system of classification.

• 🇩🇪Substantiv, das den Prozess oder die Handlung bezeichnet, Personen oder Dinge nach gemeinsamen Merkmalen in Klassen oder Kategorien einzuordnen, oder die daraus resultierende Gruppe oder das Klassifikationssystem.

1. Grouping by class or category B2 formal

   A collection of people or items organized according to shared characteristics or types.

   • The library uses a detailed categorisation for its books.
   • This categorisation of plants helps scientists study them.
   • The report includes a categorisation of all the company's products.

   🇩🇪Kategorisierung

   Synonyme: classificationgradinggroupingindexingpigeonholingratingsortingtaxonomy

2. Cognitive process of classification C1 formal

   The fundamental mental activity of sorting information into groups based on common features.

   • Categorisation is a key part of how we understand the world.
   • Children learn through the categorisation of objects.
   • This cognitive categorisation helps us make quick decisions.

   🇩🇪Kognitiver Prozess der Klassifikation

   Synonyme: categorizationclassificationgroupingsorting

3. Act of distributing into categories B2 formal

   The action of dividing items into groups of the same kind.

   • The categorisation of the data took several hours.
   • Proper categorisation of expenses is important for accounting.
   • The system allows for easy categorisation of customer feedback.

   🇩🇪Kategorisierung

   Synonyme: assortmentcategorizationclassificationgroupingorderingpigeonholingsorting

• categorisations plural form
• categorisations' possessive plural form
• categorisation's possessive singular form