classifier

[ klas-uh-fahy-er ]

/ ˈklæs əˌfaɪ ər /

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noun

a person or thing that classifies.

a device for separating solids of different characteristics by controlled rates of settling.

Grammar. (in Chinese, Japanese, and other languages) a word or morpheme that corresponds to a semantic class of nouns and regularly accompanies any noun of that class in certain syntactic constructions, such as those of numeration.

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Origin of classifier

First recorded in 1810–20; classify + -er¹

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How to use classifier in a sentence

They each went through thousands of images manually, but overall, what they verified seemed to line up with what the classifier said.
Your Flickr photos could help scientists keep tabs on wildlife|Charlotte Hu|August 23, 2021|Popular-Science
“The team identified the classifier that was causing the issue and deactivated it while they fine-tune it,” the company added.
Google fixing two search bugs; review snippets and soft 404 detection|Barry Schwartz|July 23, 2021|Search Engine Land
I joke that we sometimes have machine learning classifiers to solve a problem.
Better cybersecurity means finding the “unknown unknowns”|MIT Technology Review Insights|May 26, 2021|MIT Technology Review
So we had to sort of build a new classifier techniques to do this.
EmTech Stage: Facebook’s CTO on misinformation|Tate Ryan-Mosley|November 18, 2020|MIT Technology Review

Now we’re at the point where our classifiers are catching errors in the labeling data or catching errors that human reviewers sometimes make.
EmTech Stage: Facebook’s CTO on misinformation|Tate Ryan-Mosley|November 18, 2020|MIT Technology Review
And in fact all classification supposes the active intervention of the classifier.
The Foundations of Science: Science and Hypothesis, The Value of Science, Science and Method|Henri Poincar
It is necessary, therefore, to leave to the judgment of the classifier the propriety of cross-referencing unclaimed disclosures.
The Classification of Patents|United States Patent Office
But it may not be so obvious that he must also have been a classifier of his observations—an organizer of knowledge.
A History of Science, Volume 1(of 5)|Henry Smith Williams
If man had not been his own classifier, he would never have thought of founding a separate order for his own reception.
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I (1st edition)|Charles Darwin
So great is the dexterity of this classifier, that a glance will tell him the quality of the staple.
Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water|Lady (Ethel Gwendoline [Moffatt]) Vincent