classifier

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English classify

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English classifier

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 sign languages), 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)
• Catalan: classificador m, classificadora f
• Czech: klasifikátor (cs) m
• French: classificateur (fr) m
• Māori: 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 (ja) (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 (sınıptawıš)

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

• IPA^(key): /kla.si.fje/ ~ /klɑ.si.fje/

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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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/ or /klɑ.si.fjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		classifié /kla.si.fje/ or /klɑ.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/ or /klɑ.si.fi/	classifies /kla.si.fi/ or /klɑ.si.fi/	classifie /kla.si.fi/ or /klɑ.si.fi/	classifions /kla.si.fjɔ̃/ or /klɑ.si.fjɔ̃/	classifiez /kla.si.fje/ or /klɑ.si.fje/	classifient /kla.si.fi/ or /klɑ.si.fi/
	imperfect	classifiais /kla.si.fjɛ/ or /klɑ.si.fjɛ/	classifiais /kla.si.fjɛ/ or /klɑ.si.fjɛ/	classifiait /kla.si.fjɛ/ or /klɑ.si.fjɛ/	classifiions /kla.si.fi.jɔ̃/ or /klɑ.si.fi.jɔ̃/	classifiiez /kla.si.fi.je/ or /klɑ.si.fi.je/	classifiaient /kla.si.fjɛ/ or /klɑ.si.fjɛ/
	past historic2	classifiai /kla.si.fje/ or /klɑ.si.fje/	classifias /kla.si.fja/ or /klɑ.si.fja/	classifia /kla.si.fja/ or /klɑ.si.fja/	classifiâmes /kla.si.fjam/ or /klɑ.si.fjam/	classifiâtes /kla.si.fjat/ or /klɑ.si.fjat/	classifièrent /kla.si.fjɛʁ/ or /klɑ.si.fjɛʁ/
	future	classifierai /kla.si.fi.ʁe/ or /klɑ.si.fi.ʁe/	classifieras /kla.si.fi.ʁa/ or /klɑ.si.fi.ʁa/	classifiera /kla.si.fi.ʁa/ or /klɑ.si.fi.ʁa/	classifierons /kla.si.fi.ʁɔ̃/ or /klɑ.si.fi.ʁɔ̃/	classifierez /kla.si.fi.ʁe/ or /klɑ.si.fi.ʁe/	classifieront /kla.si.fi.ʁɔ̃/ or /klɑ.si.fi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	classifierais /kla.si.fi.ʁɛ/ or /klɑ.si.fi.ʁɛ/	classifierais /kla.si.fi.ʁɛ/ or /klɑ.si.fi.ʁɛ/	classifierait /kla.si.fi.ʁɛ/ or /klɑ.si.fi.ʁɛ/	classifierions /kla.si.fi.ʁjɔ̃/ or /klɑ.si.fi.ʁjɔ̃/	classifieriez /kla.si.fi.ʁje/ or /klɑ.si.fi.ʁje/	classifieraient /kla.si.fi.ʁɛ/ or /klɑ.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/ or /klɑ.si.fi/	classifies /kla.si.fi/ or /klɑ.si.fi/	classifie /kla.si.fi/ or /klɑ.si.fi/	classifiions /kla.si.fi.jɔ̃/ or /klɑ.si.fi.jɔ̃/	classifiiez /kla.si.fi.je/ or /klɑ.si.fi.je/	classifient /kla.si.fi/ or /klɑ.si.fi/
	imperfect2	classifiasse /kla.si.fjas/ or /klɑ.si.fjas/	classifiasses /kla.si.fjas/ or /klɑ.si.fjas/	classifiât /kla.si.fja/ or /klɑ.si.fja/	classifiassions /kla.si.fja.sjɔ̃/ or /klɑ.si.fja.sjɔ̃/	classifiassiez /kla.si.fja.sje/ or /klɑ.si.fja.sje/	classifiassent /kla.si.fjas/ or /klɑ.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/ or /klɑ.si.fi/	—	classifions /kla.si.fjɔ̃/ or /klɑ.si.fjɔ̃/	classifiez /kla.si.fje/ or /klɑ.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).

Derived terms

• classification

Descendants

• → Turkish: klasifiye (via past participle)

Further reading

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