categorisation


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Noun1.categorisation - a group of people or things arranged by class or category
arrangement - an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging; "a flower arrangement"
dichotomy, duality - being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses; "the dichotomy between eastern and western culture"
trichotomy - being threefold; a classification into three parts or subclasses
2.categorisation - the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories
coordination - being of coordinate importance, rank, or degree
basic cognitive process - cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge
appraisal, assessment - the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth
ascription, attribution - assigning to a cause or source; "the attribution of lighting to an expression of God's wrath"; "he questioned the attribution of the painting to Picasso"
ascription, attribution - assigning some quality or character to a person or thing; "the attribution of language to birds"; "the ascription to me of honors I had not earned"
cross-classification, cross-division - classification according to more than one attribute at the same time; "the cross-classification of cases was done by age and sex"
subsumption - incorporating something under a more general category
3.categorisation - the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same typecategorisation - the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type
grouping - the activity of putting things together in groups
indexing - the act of classifying and providing an index in order to make items easier to retrieve
reclassification - classifying something again (usually in a new category)
relegation - the act of assigning (someone or something) to a particular class or category
stratification - the act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata
taxonomy - practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships
typology - classification according to general type
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It will also examine the categorisation of press clubs, annual grants to different categorised press clubs and submit a comprehensive report to the government shortly.
One of the categorisations will be for types of dams, volumes, size, water mirror, and the other categorisation will be for the level of hazard.Source: The Bulgarian National Television
But Llyr Gruffydd AM, Plaid Cymru's shadow cabinet secretary for education, branded the categorisation a "crude traffic lights system".
"They also need to explain why there is continued disparity between the categorisation of schools and Estyn inspections." Darren Millar, Welsh Conservative shadow education secretary, said: "These results should be taken with a pinch of salt.
But the performance categorisation was yesterday dubbed "a crude traffic lights system" by Plaid Cymru, while the Association of School and College Leaders Cymru said the list could give the wrong impression of what is happening in classrooms.
It will also work out the mechanism, criteria, norms and parameters -- in a scientific approach -- for sub- categorisation within such OBCs.
The categorisation colour shows the level of support a school needs - schools in the green category need the least support and those in the red category need the most intensive support.
Officials in the Welsh department for education are understood to be planning to launch a new "national school improvement and categorisation system".
The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) on Thursday said that it has agreed on the use of a single repository and a common categorisation scheme to report all aviation accidents and incidents worldwide with the European Commission (EC).
The truckers had protested the categorisation of three- axle vehicles as multi- axle vehicles, which made them subject to a toll tax of ` 3.45 per km.
The MRPS is headed by fiery Manda Krishna Madiga, who has been waging a two-decade long struggle for the categorisation of 12.5 million Dalits in Andhra Pradesh into four groups to divide the reservation benefits among different sub-castes in accordance with their share in the population.