Classification vs Gradation - What's the difference?
classification | gradation | Synonyms |
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.
* {{quote-book
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, author=Jorge Luis Borges
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* 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
A sequence of gradual, successive stages; a systematic progression.
A passing by small degrees from one tone or shade, as of color, to another. See Synonyms at nuance.
The act of gradating or arranging in grades.
Any degree or relative position in an order or series.
* I. Taylor
(countable) A calibration marking.
(music) A gradual change within one parameter, or an overlapping of two blocks of sound.
(phonetics) Apophony.
Classification is a synonym of gradation.
As nouns the difference between classification and gradation
is that classification is 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 while gradation is a sequence of gradual, successive stages; a systematic progression.As a verb gradation is
to form with gradations.classification
English
Noun
(en noun)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.}}
- 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 .
Derived terms
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English
Noun
(en noun)- the several gradations of the intelligent universe