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Definition of Category
1. Noun. A collection of things sharing a common attribute. "There are two classes of detergents"
Specialized synonyms: Grammatical Category, Syntactic Category, Paradigm, Substitution Class, Brass Family, Violin Family, Woodwind Family, Stamp, Sex, Declension, Conjugation, Denomination, Histocompatibility Complex
Generic synonyms: Accumulation, Aggregation, Assemblage, Collection
Member holonyms: Superphylum
Derivative terms: Categorial, Categoric, Categorical, Categorize, Class, Classify, Classify
2. Noun. A general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme.
Specialized synonyms: Form, Kind, Sort, Variety, Pigeonhole, Rubric, Way
Derivative terms: Categorial, Categorical, Categorize
Definition of Category
1. n. One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament.
Definition of Category
1. Noun. A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria. ¹
2. Noun. (mathematics) 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Category
1. a division in any system of classification [n -RIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Category
Literary usage of Category
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Aristotle by George Grote (1872)
"Its meaning was concrete and particular ; for we are told that all general notions
or conceptions were excluded by the Stoics from this category,* and were ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1822)
"Aristotle, in writing of this category, places, in it, some things which ...
To this category belongs also musical tone, as expressing continued duration. ..."
3. Publications of the American Statistical Association by American Statistical Association (1916)
"And when categories are intra-secting, the whole content of category B falls ...
Since all units of category B, intra-secting category A, occur also in A, ..."
4. The Theory of Functions of a Real Variable and the Theory of Fourier's Series by Ernest William Hobson (1907)
"A set of the first category can be exhibited as the limit of a sequence of non-dense
... It will be shewn that such a set is not of the first category. ..."
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