Origin: Latin suffix -tion
Categorization has 4 different meanings across 1 category:
a group of people or things arranged by class or category
"The museum staff spent weeks on the categorization of the artifacts before opening the new exhibit to the public."
the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories
"The brain's ability to sort new experiences into familiar patterns relies heavily on categorization."
the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type
"The library staff spent the afternoon on categorization, sorting every book onto shelves according to its genre and subject matter."
A group of things arranged by category; a classification.
"The museum's new categorization system makes it easy to find all the artifacts from ancient Egypt in one place."