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.

• 🇵🇹Substantivo que designa o processo ou ação de distribuir pessoas ou coisas em classes ou categorias com base em características comuns, ou o grupo ou sistema de classificação resultante.

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.

   🇵🇹Categorização

   Sinônimos: 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.

   🇵🇹Processo cognitivo de classificação

   Sinônimos: 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.

   🇵🇹Classificação

   Sinônimos: assortmentcategorizationclassificationgroupingorderingpigeonholingsorting

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