category

1. A specifically defined division in a system of classification; a class.
2. A general class of ideas, terms, or things that mark divisions or coordinations within a conceptual scheme, especially:
   1. Aristotle's modes of objective being, such as quality, quantity, or relation, that are inherent in everything.
   2. Kant's modes of subjective understanding, such as singularity, universality, or particularity, that organize perceptions into knowledge.
   3. A basic logical type of philosophical conception in post-Kantian philosophy.
3. Linguistics.
   1. A classificatory structural unit or property of a language, such as a part of speech, verb phrase, or object.
   2. A specific grammatical defining property of a linguistic unit or class, such as number or gender in the noun and tense or voice in the verb.

[French catégorie, from Old French, from Late Latin catēgoria, class of predicables, from Greek katēgoriā, accusation, charge, from katēgorein, to accuse, predicate : kat-, kata-, down, against; see cata– + agoreuein, ēgor-, to speak in public (from agorā, marketplace, assembly).]

noun

A subdivision of a larger group: class, classification, order, set. See group.

On Wikipedia, categories are used to organize the entire project. To learn about how this works, see Help:Category and Wikipedia:FAQ/Categorization.
For an overview of categorization guidelines, see Wikipedia:Categorization. To browse the existing categories, see Portal:Contents/Categorical index.

Category may refer to:

• Category (philosophy)
• taxonomic category - Taxonomic rank
• Category (grammar)
• Category (mathematics)
• Categories (Aristotle)
• Category (Kant)
• Categories (Peirce)
• Categories (Stoic)
• Categories (game), a game involving naming categories of things
• Category (topology) in the context of Baire spaces
• Lyusternik–Schnirelmann category, sometimes called LS-category or simply category
• Category (chess tournament)

In taxonomic uses:

• Pregnancy category
• Prison categories (UK)
• Boxing weight classes

In computer programming:

• Categories, a programming concept in Objective-C

In network cabling:

• Networking Cable: CAT (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5e, 6, 6a)

In meteorology:

• Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale: Category (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

See also

Look up category in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

• Categorization

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Common misspelling(s) of category

• catagory

Dansk (Danish)
n. - kategori

Nederlands (Dutch)
categorie

Français (French)
n. - catégorie

Deutsch (German)
n. - Kategorie, Klasse

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - κατηγορία, κλάση

Italiano (Italian)
categoria, classe

Português (Portuguese)
n. - categoria (f)

Русский (Russian)
категория, класс

Español (Spanish)
n. - categoría, clase

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - kategori

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
种类, 范畴, 别

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 種類, 範疇, 別

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 범주 , 부류

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 範疇, 種類, 部門

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) صنف, باب, فصل, فئه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮סוג, קטגוריה‬

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