from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
categorization
n 1: a group of people or things arranged by class or category
[syn: {classification}, {categorization}, {categorisation}]
2: the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or
categories [syn: {classification}, {categorization},
{categorisation}, {sorting}]
3: the act of distributing things into classes or categories of
the same type [syn: {categorization}, {categorisation},
{classification}, {compartmentalization},
{compartmentalisation}, {assortment}]