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Category meaning
 kăt'ĭ-gôr'ē

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A specifically defined division in a system of classification; a class.

noun

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A property or structural unit of a language, such as a part of speech or a type of

phrase.

noun

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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.

noun

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The definition of a category is any sort of division or class.

An example of category is food that is made from grains.

 noun

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A specific grammatical defining property of a linguistic unit or class, such as number or

gender in the noun and tense or voice in the verb.

noun

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A class or division in a scheme of classification.

noun

Any of the various basic concepts into which all knowledge can be classified.

noun

See Cat.

A general class of ideas, terms, or things that mark divisions or coordinations within a
conceptual scheme, especially:

 Aristotle's modes of objective being, such as quality, quantity, or relation, that

are inherent in everything.
 Kant's modes of subjective understanding, such as singularity, universality, or
particularity, that organize perceptions into knowledge.
 A basic logical type of philosophical conception in post-Kantian philosophy.

noun
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A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or

defined criteria.
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.

noun

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(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.

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.
noun

ORIGIN OF CATEGORY
 

French catégorie from Old French from Late Latin catēgoria class of

predicables from Greek katēgoriā accusation, charge from katēgorein to accuse, predicate kat-,
kata- down, against cata– agoreuein ēgor- to speak in public (from agorā marketplace,
assembly ger- in Indo-European roots)

These belong in the grain category.

 Sentence Examples
 To this category belong certain sacs and pouches.
 All members that belong to the same category are sitting together.
 It seems to me that it should be organized by 1911 political divisions as much
as possible, so there should be Category: Austria-Hungary instead of Category:
Central Europe, for instance.
 I've moved German cities in the Poland, Silesia and
Prussia category to Category:Germany.
 The rock-hewn tombs of Etruria scarcely come under the category of
catacombs, in the usual sense, being rather independent family burial-places,
grouped together in a necropolis.
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Words near category in the Dictionary

 categorizer
 categorizers
 categorizes
 categorizing
 category
 category 3, 5, etc.
 category-killer
 category-killers
 category-mistake
 categoryless