classifier

[ klas-uh-fahy-er ]

noun

1. a person or thing that classifies.
2. a device for separating solids of different characteristics by controlled rates of settling.
3. 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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of classifier¹

First recorded in 1810–20; classify + -er ¹

Example Sentences

They each went through thousands of images manually, but overall, what they verified seemed to line up with what the classifier said.

From Popular-Science

“The team identified the classifier that was causing the issue and deactivated it while they fine-tune it,” the company added.

From Search Engine Land

I joke that we sometimes have machine learning classifiers to solve a problem.

From 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.

From MIT Technology Review

So we had to sort of build a new classifier techniques to do this.

From MIT Technology Review

And in fact all classification supposes the active intervention of the classifier.

From Project Gutenberg

It is necessary, therefore, to leave to the judgment of the classifier the propriety of cross-referencing unclaimed disclosures.

From Project Gutenberg

But it may not be so obvious that he must also have been a classifier of his observations—an organizer of knowledge.

From Project Gutenberg

If man had not been his own classifier, he would never have thought of founding a separate order for his own reception.

From Project Gutenberg

So great is the dexterity of this classifier, that a glance will tell him the quality of the staple.

From Project Gutenberg