classifier
- noun
- /ˈklæsɪfaɪər/
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clasificador
- The teacher acted as a classifier, grouping the students based on their abilities for the project.
Examples
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Carl Linnaeus, the great Swedish classifier, named the genus Culex, and entomologist Frederick Theobald named the species nigripalpus, literally "a gnat with black mouthparts."
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The introduction to this essay discussed the prominence of numerical age as a classifier of the individual in modern Western social order.
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In traditional histories and criticism of Chinese painting, subject matter served as the major classifier.
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Exact age is at once an important classifier of oneself in relation to one's sense of self, and so too in relation to others.
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We argued earlier that numerical age individuates the person and is used as a prime classifier of the individual.
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For most children in Israel, age is the very first attribute of the individual to be turned into a taxonomic classifier.
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Classifiers should know that they are acting lawfully and properly.
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This authority to classify Top Secret information has been delegated under that order to 1,336 original classifiers.
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She began work under the legendary stellar classifier Annie Cannon, but her intelligence and originality led her to pursue her own research.
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The support for using mnemonics enables human classifiers to easily memorize the symbols and notations of the classification scheme.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
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4.9
A person who organizes books and other items in a library by subject and number
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8.6
A scientist who puts living things into groups by their features
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7.9
A person who sorts material by quality in a factory
A person or machine that sorts things into groups
A person who sorts things into groups, like items or information
A person who arranges ideas or objects in a clear order
A person who arranges ideas or items into a clear order
A person who labels things with codes to organize them
Compounds
- Specialized
A simple method that uses chance to put items into groups, assuming each detail acts alone
- Specialized
A model that gives the chance of each possible class for an input, for example whether an email is spam
How Coarse
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word classifier comes from the simple word class meaning 'group' plus the parts -ify ('to make') and -er ('one who'). So a classifier is literally 'one who makes groups', which explains a person who arranges or organizes things into classes.