(n.) The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or affinities.
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antonomasia, appraisal, assessment, binomial nomenclature, biosystematics, biosystematy, categorization, class, evaluation, factoring, family, gauging, genus, glossology, grouping, identification, kingdom, nomenclature, onomastics, onomatology, order, orismology, phylum, place-names, place-naming, polyonymy, sifting, sifting out, sorting, sorting out, species, systematics, taxonomy, terminology, toponymy, trinomialism, weighing, winnowing
