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Categorization is the act of putting people or things into groups by type — and also the set of groups you get when you have done that. You can talk about the categorization of books in a library, or of animals in science. It is a school and office noun; the matching verb is categorize. Though actually, the word can feel cold when it is used about people, as if persons were items in boxes. Those boxes are made by us. American English categorization; British English often categorisation. Same idea.
分類；歸類
組成categorize + -ation（動作或結果）。categorize 從 category 來。category 再往上是古希臘文：κατά（kata，「往下／對着」）加上跟公開場合說話有關的部分 — 原先是「指控人的人」，後來才變成「一類、一型」。
同家族的字
- categorizethe verb: to do that grouping
- categorya group or type; the stem
- categoricalsame family, but that adjective now means “said with no doubt,” not “about groups”
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
categorizationnoun/ˌkæt.ə.ɡə.ɹaɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
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A group of things arranged by category.
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The process of sorting or arranging things into categories or classes.
- It’s fair to say that Wikipedia has spent far more time considering the philosophical ramifications of categorization than Aristotle and Kant ever did.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。