Category

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  • noun. A specifically defined division in a system of classification; a class.
  • noun. A general class of ideas, terms, or things that mark divisions or coordinations within a conceptual scheme, especially.
  • noun. Aristotle's modes of objective being, such as quality, quantity, or relation, that are inherent in everything.
  • noun. Kant's modes of subjective understanding, such as singularity, universality, or particularity, that organize perceptions into knowledge.
  • noun. A basic logical type of philosophical conception in post-Kantian philosophy.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A property or structural unit of a language, such as a part of speech or a type of phrase.
  • noun. 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. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. In logic, a highest notion, especially one derived from the logical analysis of the forms of proposition.
  • noun. A summum genus, or widest class.
  • noun. Any very wide and distinctive class; any comprehensive division or class of persons or things.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament.
  • noun. Class; also, state, condition, or predicament.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
  • noun. 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme
  • noun. a collection of things sharing a common attribute
  • Word Usage
    "Dates in the URL might look appropriate for a true Blog, but %category%/%postname% is far more user friendly, and many visitors will instinctively know to trim the URL to see the category home page."
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