Classification
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes.
Type
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.An individual considered representative of members of its taxonomic group: the type of a genus, family, etc.A blood group.An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly Old Testament events linked to Christian times.A tag attached to variables and values used in determining what values may be assigned to what variables.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To put text on paper using a typewriter.To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.To determine the blood type.