Meaning of category | Babel Free

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1. A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
2. A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria
3. 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
4. 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.
5. A subdivision of a larger group:class, classification, order, set.
6. a class or division of things (or people). various categories of goods on sale. kategorie فِئةٌ،طَبَقَةٌ، صِنْفٌ категория categoria kategorie, druh die Kategorie gruppe; klasse; kategori κατηγορίαcategoría kategooria, sort گروه؛ طبقه kategoria, luokka catégorieקבוצה श्रेणी vrsta, kategorija osztály, kategória golongan, kategori flokkur, hópur, tegund categoria カテゴリー 분류 kategorija, rūšis kategorija katogeri categorieklasse, kategori, gruppe, avdelingkategoria كټګورى، ډول (قسم)،صنف، طبقه، ډوله...
7. to put (things or people) into a category. kategoriseer يُصَنِّفُ категоризирам classificar kategorizovat, roztřídit in eine Kategorie einteilen gruppere; klassificere; kategorisere ταξινομώclasificar liigitama طبقه بندی کردن luokitella classer par catégories לְסָווֵג कोटि में रखना, श्रेणी में रखना razvrstati kategorizál, osztályoz menggolongkan flokka, draga í dilk classificare 分類する 분류하다 klasifikuoti, rūšiuoti noteikt kategoriju mengkatogerikan categoriserengruppere, kategorisereklasyfikować...
8. categoría, clase.
9. A specifically defined division in a system of classification; a class.
10. A general class of ideas, terms, or things that mark divisions or coordinations within a conceptual scheme, especially:a. Aristotle's modes of objective being, such as quality, quantity, or relation, that are inherent in all things.
11. Linguistics a. A property or structural unit of a language, such as a part of speech or a type of phrase.
    Linguistics
12. Mathematics A class of objects, together with a class of morphisms between those objects, and an associative composition rule for those morphisms. Categories are used to study a wide variety of mathematical constructions in a similar way.
    Mathematics
13. a class or group of things, people, etc, possessing some quality or qualities in common; a division in a system of classification
14. (Philosophy) metaphysics any one of the most basic classes into which objects and concepts can be analysed
    metaphysics

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Examples

“This steep and dangerous climb belongs to the most difficult category.”

“I wouldn’t put this book in the same category as the author’s first novel.”

“The traditional way of describing the similarities and differences between constituents is to say that they belong to categories of various types. Thus, words like boy, girl, man, woman, etc. are traditionally said to belong to the category of Nouns, whereas words like a, the, this, and that are traditionally said to belong to the category of Determiners.”

“One well-known category has sets as objects and functions as arrows.”

“Just as a monoid consists of an underlying set with a binary operation "on top of it" which is closed, associative and with an identity, a category consists of an underlying digraph with an arrow composition operation "on top of it" which is transitively closed, associative, and with an identity at each object. In fact, a category's composition operation, when restricted to a single one of its objects, turns that object's set of arrows (which would all be loops) into a monoid.”

“The use of the word ‘factor’ shows the explicit intention of categorists to work with functions in an algebraic manner: a category is an algebra of functions.”

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