classificatory
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8.1
- adjective
- /klæsɪfɪˌkeɪtəri/
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clasificatorio
- In biology, a classificatory system helps scientists organize and identify different species of organisms.
- classificatory system
- classificatory scheme
- classificatory concept
What about the primary or classificatory sense?
- What about the primary or classificatory sense?
- And that classificatory system was based on different types or races.
Examples
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Recent research has thrown into doubt the usefulness of a classificatory concept of fiction.
Academic text (2004) -
The results support the development of a classificatory system with which the characteristics of anxiety-provoking situations may be better understood.
Academic text (1996) -
What about the primary or classificatory sense?
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Under these circumstances, the same situation would be located in two separate classificatory systems.
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And that classificatory system was based on different types or races.
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Some modern scholars have drawn the same conclusions and employ a similar classificatory system.
Academic text (1997) -
The primary goals for drinking may be described by reference to a classificatory scheme of interpreting the effects of beer consumption.
Academic text (1990) -
The article then introduces a classificatory scheme for understanding the attitudes of Arabs toward the United States.
Academic text (2005) -
Taken together, as will be demonstrated, these distinctions reflect a classificatory system of ethnic difference.
Academic text (2008) -
Yet missing from her list are people marginal to high academia and its classificatory culture.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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8.2
About how people group plants, animals, or other things
To put things into groups by type
Relating to groups used to sort ideas, objects, or words
Relates to putting things into groups for study or comparison
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word classificatory comes from the common root class, which means 'group' or 'type', and you can also see the same root in classify and classification. So classificatory is about putting things into groups or the process of classification.