noun
- The act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type.
- A group of people or things arranged by class or category.
- synonyms: categorization, categorisation
- The basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories.
- synonyms: categorization, categorisation, sorting
- Restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people. .
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