“categories” is a form of
category
UK /ˈkæt.ɪ.ɡ(ə.)ɹi/ · US /ˈkæt.ɪˌɡoɹ.i/ noun
Forms categories
- noun A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria. “This steep and dangerous climb belongs to the most difficult category.”
- noun (mathematics) A collection of objects, together with a transitively closed collection of composable arrows between them, such that every object has an identity arrow, and such that arrow composition is associative. “One well-known category has sets as objects and functions as arrows.”
Synonyms
class family genus kingdom order pigeonhole phylum race tribe type description stripe department fashion division genre ilk kind likes rubric
Etymology
Late Middle English, borrowed from French catégorie, from Middle French categorie, from Late Latin catēgoria (“class of predicables”), from Ancient Greek κατηγορία (katēgoría, “head of predicables”). Doublet of categoria.
Webster’s 1913
- noun One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament.
- noun Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category.
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “category”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details