classifier

English

Etymology

From classify +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈklæsɪfaɪɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈklæsɪfaɪə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: clas‧si‧fi‧er

Noun

classifier (plural classifiers)

1. Someone who classifies.
   • 1995, Leonard Shengold, Delusions of Everyday Life, page 39:

     He was a model of anal defensiveness: fastidious in his dress and appearance, a collector and putter of things in order, a classifier and labeler.

2. (linguistics) A word or morpheme used in some languages (such as CJKV languages and American Sign Language), in certain contexts (such as counting), to indicate the semantic class to which something belongs.
3. A machine that separates particles or objects of different size or density.
4. (computing) A program or algorithm that classifies.
5. (object-oriented programming) A metaclass used to group other entities having common features.
   • 2005, Dan Pilone, Neil Pitman, UML 2.0 in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference, page 9:

     A classifier can have several types of extra information attached to it via a UML mechanism called adornments.

   • 2008, S.S.Jadhav B.S.Ainapure, Object Oriented Modeling & Design, page 3-40:

     The owner scope of a feature specifies whether the feature appears in each instance of the classifier or whether there is just a single instance of the feature for all instances of the classifier.

   • 2017, Katalin Popovici, Pieter J. Mosterman, Real-Time Simulation Technologies, page 142:

     The figure also shows that instances can be associated with a classifier Behavior, which represents the behavior that active objects start executing when created.

Derived terms

• autoclassifier
• massifier
• metaclassifier
• multiclassifier
• phyloclassifier
• subclassifier
• subobject classifier
• subset classifier

Translations

someone who classifies

• Arabic: مُصَنِّف m (muṣannif), مُصَنِّفَة f (muṣannifa), مُصَنِّفُون m pl (muṣannifūn), مُصَنِّفِين m pl (muṣannifīn), مُصَنِّفَيْن m du (muṣannifayn), مُصَنِّفَان m du (muṣannifān), مُصَنِّفَات f pl (muṣannifāt), مُصَنِّفَتَان f du (muṣannifatān), مُصَنِّفَتَيْن f du (muṣannifatayn), مِصْنَاف n (miṣnāf), مِصْنَافَيْن n du (miṣnāfayn), مِصْنَافَان n du (miṣnāfān), مَصَانِيف n pl (maṣānīf)
• Czech: klasifikátor (cs) m
• French: classificateur (fr) m
• Maori: kaiwhakarōpū
• Occitan: classificador
• Portuguese: classificador (pt) m
• Swedish: klassificerare (sv) c

(linguistics) word or morpheme used to indicate a semantic class — see also measure word

• American Sign Language: C@Side-PalmAcross L@Side-PalmAcross
• Bengali: please add this translation if you can
• Burmese: သင်္ချာပစ္စည်း (my) (sanghkyapaccany:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 量詞 / 量词 (zh) (liàngcí)

• French: classificateur (fr) m, mot de mesure m
• German: Zählwort n, Zählklassenwort n, Zähleinheitswort (de) n, Numeralklassifikator m, Zahlklassifikator m, Klassifikator m
• Hungarian: számlálószó
• Japanese: 助数詞 (ja) (じょすうし, josūshi), 類別詞 (るいべつし, ruibetsushi), 量詞 (りょうし, ryōshi)
• Khmer: នាមរនាប់ (neam ronuab), សំខ្យានុគ្រោះ (km) (sâmkhyanŭkruŏh)
• Korean: 수분류사(數分類詞) (subullyusa), 양수사(量數詞) (yangsusa)
• Lao: ລັກສະນະນາມ (lak sa na nām)
• Malay: penjodoh bilangan
• Portuguese: classificador (pt) m
• Russian: классифика́тор (ru) m (klassifikátor), счётное сло́во n (sčótnoje slóvo)
• Swedish: klassmärke n
• Thai: ลักษณนาม (th) (lák-sà-nà-naam)
• Vietnamese: loại từ (vi), danh từ loại thể, danh từ chỉ đơn vị tự nhiên

a machine that separates particles or objects of different size or density

computing: a program or algorithm that classifies

• French: classifieur (fr) m
• Kazakh: сыныптауыш (synyptauyş)

OOP: class which classifies other classes by features

• French: classifieur (fr) m

See also

• counter
• counting word
• measure word

French

Etymology

From classe +‎ -ifier.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Verb

classifier

1. to classify

Conjugation

Conjugation of classifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	classifier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	classifiant /kla.si.fjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		classifié /kla.si.fje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	classifie /kla.si.fi/	classifies /kla.si.fi/	classifie /kla.si.fi/	classifions /kla.si.fjɔ̃/	classifiez /kla.si.fje/	classifient /kla.si.fi/
	imperfect	classifiais /kla.si.fjɛ/	classifiais /kla.si.fjɛ/	classifiait /kla.si.fjɛ/	classifiions /kla.si.fi.jɔ̃/	classifiiez /kla.si.fi.je/	classifiaient /kla.si.fjɛ/
	past historic2	classifiai /kla.si.fje/	classifias /kla.si.fja/	classifia /kla.si.fja/	classifiâmes /kla.si.fjam/	classifiâtes /kla.si.fjat/	classifièrent /kla.si.fjɛʁ/
	future	classifierai /kla.si.fi.ʁe/	classifieras /kla.si.fi.ʁa/	classifiera /kla.si.fi.ʁa/	classifierons /kla.si.fi.ʁɔ̃/	classifierez /kla.si.fi.ʁe/	classifieront /kla.si.fi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	classifierais /kla.si.fi.ʁɛ/	classifierais /kla.si.fi.ʁɛ/	classifierait /kla.si.fi.ʁɛ/	classifierions /kla.si.fi.ʁjɔ̃/	classifieriez /kla.si.fi.ʁje/	classifieraient /kla.si.fi.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	classifie /kla.si.fi/	classifies /kla.si.fi/	classifie /kla.si.fi/	classifiions /kla.si.fi.jɔ̃/	classifiiez /kla.si.fi.je/	classifient /kla.si.fi/
	imperfect2	classifiasse /kla.si.fjas/	classifiasses /kla.si.fjas/	classifiât /kla.si.fja/	classifiassions /kla.si.fja.sjɔ̃/	classifiassiez /kla.si.fja.sje/	classifiassent /kla.si.fjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	classifie /kla.si.fi/	—	classifions /kla.si.fjɔ̃/	classifiez /kla.si.fje/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Descendants

• → Turkish: klasifiye (via past participle)

Further reading

• “classifier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.