Look up: category

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   category
   A group of similar products; such as detergents, paper goods, etc.
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   [Noun] A class or group of similar things.
   Example: The dog was entered in the category for small pets.
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   [n] - a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme
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   Two or more concepts having one or more attributes or relationships held in common, such that the commonality may itself become conceptualised and named. Thus the manifest physical and behavioural similarities between sparrows, eagles, and ducks would, by the process of abstraction, soon give rise t
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   In philosophy, a fundamental concept applied to being that cannot be reduced to anything more elementary. Aristotle listed ten categories: substance, quantity, quality, relation, place, time,...
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   A group of closely related chemicals whose physicochemical, ecotoxicological or toxicological properties follow a regular pattern because of structural similarity.
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   (theory) A category K is a collection of objects, obj(K), and a collection of morphisms (or 'arrows'), mor(K) such that 1. Each morphism f has a 'typing' on a pair of objects A, B written f:A-)B. This is read 'f is a morphism from A to B'. A is the 'source' or 'domain' of f and B is its 'target' or 'co-domain'. 2. There is a partial function on mo...
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   Category
   A group of products that satisfy a consumer need (e.g fresh produce)
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   a homogeneous class or group of a population of objects or measurements; the category may be styled after one of the finite characteristics of the population or according to the limits of measurement for which observations are to be allocated to that category of frequency group Category: Mathematics • a specified area of a system used for a particular category of data Category: Auto...
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    Definition (undergraduate level) A set C of functions that is closed under compositions and contains the identity functions of all the source and target sets of functions in C .<br /> That is, if f and g are in C , then fg and gf are in C ;<br /> and if f is in C and f maps set A to set B , then the identity functions on A and B are bot ...
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    Cat'e·go·ry noun ; plural Categories . [ Latin categoria , Greek ..., from ... to accuse, affirm, predicate; ... down, against + ... to harrangue, assert, from ... assembly.] 1. (Logic.) 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 pr ...
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    A `category` is a predicate or attribute. `Category` may refer to: *Category (philosophy) *taxonomic category - Taxonomic rank *Category (mathematics) *`Categories` (Aristotle) *Category (Kant) *Categories (Stoic) *Categories (game), a game involving naming categories of things *Category (topology) In `taxonomic uses`: * Pregnancy category * Prison categories (UK) * Boxing weight classes In `computer programming`: * Categories, a programming c...
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    • (n.) Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category. • (n.) 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.
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    (from the article `mathematics`) ...Mac Lane, also of the United States, and Eilenberg extended this axiomatic approach until many types of mathematical structures were presented in ... ...calculus is capable of grounding mathematics, or at least of doing so in as straightforward a manner as does ZF. A much different approach to ... ...
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    in logic, a term used to denote the several most general or highest types of thought forms or entities, or to denote any distinction such that, if a ... [9 related articles]
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    category 1. A class or division in a scheme of classification. 2. In logic, any of the various basic concepts into which all knowledge can be classified.
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    Any rank within the classification hierarchy, e.g., family, subfamily, subspecies.
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    1. a collection of things sharing a common attribute
    2. a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme
    
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    the ranking of a hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale, used by the U.S. National Weather Service. A somewhat different scale of categories is used for tropical cyclones by the Australian Bureau of Meterology.
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    category, in taxonomy: see classification.
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    category, philosophical term that literally means predication or assertion. It was first used by Aristotle, whose 10 categories formed a list of all the ways in which assertions can be made of a subject. Immanuel Kant's 12 categories constitute an exhaustive list of the a priori forms through which ...
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    (Gr. kategoria) In Aristotle's logic (1) the predicate of a proposition; (2) one of the ultimate modes of being that may be asserted in predication, viz.: substance, quantity, quality, relation, place, time, position, state, action, passion. -- G.R.M. (in Kant) Any of twelve forms or relating principles of the understanding, constituting necessary...
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