classifier
Americannoun
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a person or thing that classifies.
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a device for separating solids of different characteristics by controlled rates of settling.
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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.
Etymology
Origin of classifier
Example Sentences
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One suspects that Lewis, an ardent classifier well-versed in Carolus Linnaeus’ “Systema Naturae,” would have been thrilled to present his own findings at the society.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
"My team is currently developing a tear-protein-based classifier that can differentiate brain cancer patients from healthy volunteers with high levels of accuracy," she said.
From BBC • Sep. 28, 2025
An algorithm known as a classifier automatically categorizes content, allowing Character.AI to identify words that might violate its rules and filter conversations.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2025
They plug the generative model into standard statistical formulas to directly construct a classifier instead of learning it from samples, as was done with discriminative approaches.
From Science Daily • May 16, 2024
Mendel, as we shall see, was an instinctual gardener—a breeder of plants, a counter of seeds, an isolator of traits; Darwin was a garden digger—a classifier of plants, an organizer of specimens, a taxonomist.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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