classifier

From classify +‎ -er.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈklæsɪfaɪɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈklæsɪfaɪə/

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• Hyphenation: clas‧si‧fi‧er

classifier (plural classifiers)

1. Someone who classifies.
   • 1995, Leonard Shengold, Delusions of Everyday Life, page 39:

     He was a model of anal defensiveness: fastidious in his dress and appearance, a collector and putter of things in order, a classifier and labeler.

2. (linguistics) A word or morpheme used in some languages (such as CJKV languages and American Sign Language), in certain contexts (such as counting), to indicate the semantic class to which something belongs.
3. A machine that separates particles or objects of different size or density.
4. (computing) A program or algorithm that classifies.
5. (object-oriented programming) A metaclass used to group other entities having common features.
   • 2005, Dan Pilone, Neil Pitman, UML 2.0 in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference, page 9:

     A classifier can have several types of extra information attached to it via a UML mechanism called adornments.

   • 2008, S.S.Jadhav B.S.Ainapure, Object Oriented Modeling & Design, page 3-40:

     The owner scope of a feature specifies whether the feature appears in each instance of the classifier or whether there is just a single instance of the feature for all instances of the classifier.

   • 2017, Katalin Popovici, Pieter J. Mosterman, Real-Time Simulation Technologies, page 142:

     The figure also shows that instances can be associated with a classifier Behavior, which represents the behavior that active objects start executing when created.

• counter
• counting word
• measure word

From classe +‎ -ifier.

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classifier

1. to classify

• → Turkish: klasifiye (via past participle)

• “classifier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.