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category

Academic Word List, sublist 2.

About 32.34 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
    This steep and dangerous climb belongs to the most difficult category.
  2. noun A collection of objects, together with a transitively closed collection of composable arrows between them, such that every object has an identity arrow, and such that arrow composition is associative.
    One well-known category has sets as objects and functions as arrows.
  3. noun This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Similar words

class family classification categorization subcategory categorized type classified kind component

Often followed by

of is and in are as for that to

Word family

categories categorisation categorise categorised categorises categorising categorization categorized categorizes categorizing

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