category
Category (ancient Greek for "charge, testimony, property") stands for:
- Category (philosophy) , basic concept of logic, in ontology and metaphysics the basic characteristics of being
- Category (psychology) , basic form of statements, a basic general term for the organization of knowledge content
- Lexical category, basic concept of the grammatical classification of words, see part of speech
- Category (IFRS) , in business the accounting rule of IAS 39
- Fundamental category , basic classes and terms for indexing and cataloging documents
- Class in categorical algebra, see category theory #Category
- Social category , demographic group, a lot of people with the same social characteristics
- Tournament category (chess) , classification method for the strength of a chess tournament
Categorization stands for:
- Categorization (cognitive science) , cognitive ability to sort and classify different things
- Social categorization , study on intergroup behavior (1971)
- Classification , grouping of things into classes, groups, quantities
- Classification , typification or systematics: a set of categories
See also:
- Category 5
- Category C
- Categories , writing by Aristotle
- Wikipedia: Categories - internal systematics of all Wikipedia pages
Wiktionary: Category - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
