noun
definition
The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes.
Examples of classification in a Sentence
A natural classification of the Hydroidea has yet to be put forward.
Within this classification of uniforms, there are several distinctions.
A statement may now be given of Gadow's classification of birds, in which the extinct forms have been intercalated so far as possible.
Their shape and size varies greatly and is often of use in classification.
For the development of this classification see Element.
This is the great difficulty of classification.
Haeckel's classification of 1866 was only a first attempt.
The classification of snakes has undergone many vicissitudes.
The terms employed, especially for the subdivisions, cannot be easily translated into other languages, and the English equivalents in the following table are only put forward tentatively Richthofen'S Classification Of Mountains I.
This will perhaps be the most convenient place to mention another kind of classification of birds, which, based on a principle wholly different from those that have just been explained, requires a few words, though it has not been productive, parte.
Blanchard published some Recherches sur les caracteres osteo- logiques des oiseaux appliquees a la classification naturelle de ces animaux, strongly urging the superiority of such characters over those drawn from the bill or feet, which, he remarks, though they may have sometimes given correct notions, have mostly led to mistakes, and, if observations of habits and food have sometimes afforded happy results, they have often been deceptive; so that, should more be wanted than to draw up a mere inventory of creation or trace the distinctive outline of each species, zoology without anatomy would remain a barren study.
Its basis is the classification of Cuvier, the modifications of which by Des Murs will seldom commend themselves to systematists whose opinion is generally deemed worth having.
Few, if any, of the faults of that classification are removed, and the improvements suggested, if not established by his successors, those especially of other countries than France, are ignored, or, as is the case with some of those of L'Herminier, are only cited to be set aside.
Meanwhile the English naturalist, John Ray, was studying the classification of animals; he published, in 1705, his Methodus insectorum, in which the nature of the metamorphosis received due weight.
Westwood (Modern Classification of Insects, 1839-1840) connects these older writers with their successors of to-day.
The situation of the lateral nervestems in the different genera with respect to the muscular layers lends definite support to the interpretation of their homologies here given and forms the basis of Burger's classification.
In the second classification (2) is typical of the " cold " process, whilst (I), (3), (4) are effected by the, boiling " process.
His contributions on the Mesozoic reptiles of Great Britain culminated in his complete rearrangement and classification of this group, one of his greatest services to palaeontology.
The like must be said even of the contribution to the problem made by August Pott,' though he has helped to define one condition of success - the classification of the strata in " Western " texts - and has taken some steps in the right direction, in connexion with the complex phenomena of one witness, the Harklean Syriac.
This classification is founded on the kinds of problems arising from the combinations.
In polymorphism, the taxonomic classification of species does not always match up with a tight genetic definition.
A controlled virus taxonomical and functional classification has been used for all the proteins and protein families in the database.
Colors in brackets, " [] ", are assumed from the spectral classification.
Grading criteria attached to each honors degree classification are appended.
My degree classification may be affected by my choice of options.
We also present the results of the phoneme classification experiments conducted on the TIMIT corpus of continuous speech.
The framework can be easily used for quantitative comparison of texture classification algorithms.
Species and habitat classification provides a language through which data can be communicated at a national and international level.
The code need only be observed if the additional material will raise the classification category of the work beyond previously classified versions.
These use a range of different parameters for classification, so that they are not strictly comparable.
Surgery in patients with liver dysfunction The Child-Pugh classification is a useful method of staging the progress of liver decompensation.
Others are less complimentary of the benefits of classification using dentition.
The use of standard classification schemes will improve resource discovery [40] .
Classification kept as a machine-gun emplacement, June 7 1941.
Bacterial exotoxins [IRP] Classification of bacterial exotoxins based on their mode of action at the cellular level.
Classification of fluorescent soft rot Pseudomonas bacteria, including P. marginalis strains, using whole cell fatty acid analysis.
Muybridge (1899) is the oldest known source on the classification of quadrupedal gaits in general, including elephant gaits.
Owners of vacant property may wish to avoid liability by bringing their hereditament under the classification of ' relevant industrial hereditament ' .
The HOST classification makes use of the fact that the physical properties of soils have a major influence on catchment hydrology.
It is the third criterion that is often called into question by Shaffer's classification of stochasticity primarily because of formalization indeterminacy.
Cross- classification of these inflection markers encodes natural classes of inflection markers encodes natural classes of inflection.
Advantages of using classification schemes include improved subject browsing facilities, potential multi-lingual access and improved interoperability with other services.
Before the classification procedure, cloud -cover reduced composites of the Canadian landmass, each spanning 10 day periods are created.
Now we can examine a situation illustrating the pitfalls of classification tree.
Chapter 1 also offers a classification of semantic types of situational plurality.
He was immensely proud of his " A " classification accorded by the " New Domesday scribe " .
The requirements in relation to the classification of long-term liabilities should be made more rigorous.
Under the ' Analysis ' menu, choose ' Classification ' which allows you to classify the entries contained within a defined scope.
More shellfish harvesting classification Thursday 20 April 2006 Classification of shellfish harvesting areas in Scottish waters.
The opening chapters effortlessly of this book guide the reader through the dangerous shoals of classification theory.