Noun

(en noun)

The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes.

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, year=1937-1952 , author=Jorge Luis Borges , title=Other Inquisitions citation , passage=On those remote pages it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a verfy fine camel's hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a distance.}}

* 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)

I’m using mathesis' — a universal science of '''measurement''' and '''order''' …
And there is also '''taxinomia''' a principle of ''''''classification'''''' and ordered '''tabulation'''.
Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …
Western reason had entered the ' age of judgement .

Noun

(head)

Noun

(en noun)

(label) One's structure or make-up; form, shape, bodily proportions.

* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , IV.ii:

all the powres of nature, / Which she by art could vse vnto her will, / And to her seruice bind each liuing creature; / Through secret vnderstanding of their feature .

An important or main item.

(label) A long, prominent, article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.

Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).

(label) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.

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The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic; as, one of the features of the landscape.

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(label) Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.

A feature' of many Central Texas prehistoric archeological sites is a low spreading pile of stones called a rock midden. Other ' features at these sites may include small hearths.

(label) Characteristic forms or shapes of a part. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.