classificatory

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The possibilities of streaming have inspired a new "classificatory imagination."

From Salon • Oct. 23, 2021

We should also consider some of the potential consequences of the classificatory imagination.

From Salon • Oct. 23, 2021

But by the 1970s the classificatory impulse as a vehicle for scientific legitimacy came to the fore.

From Washington Post • Sep. 2, 2021

A survey conducted in 1993 by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University found that Goddard’s classificatory system was still used to evaluate the eligibility of a candidate for medical care.

From Slate • Jun. 14, 2021

In this way minerals radically different were associated on the ground of what is generally a superficial and accidental character, and rarely of any classificatory value.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various