classifier
English
Etymology
Etymology tree
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈklæsɪfaɪɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈklæsɪfaɪə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Hyphenation: clas‧si‧fi‧er
Noun
classifier (plural classifiers)
- Someone who classifies.
- 1995, Leonard Shengold, Delusions of Everyday Life, page 39:
- He was a model of anal defensiveness: fastidious in his dress and appearance, a collector and putter of things in order, a classifier and labeler.
- (linguistics) A word or morpheme used in some languages (such as CJKV languages and sign languages), in certain contexts (such as counting), to indicate the semantic class to which something belongs.
- A machine that separates particles or objects of different size or density.
- (computing) A program or algorithm that classifies.
- (object-oriented programming) A metaclass used to group other entities having common features.
- 2005, Dan Pilone, Neil Pitman, UML 2.0 in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference, page 9:
- A classifier can have several types of extra information attached to it via a UML mechanism called adornments.
- 2008, S.S.Jadhav B.S.Ainapure, Object Oriented Modeling & Design, page 3-40:
- The owner scope of a feature specifies whether the feature appears in each instance of the classifier or whether there is just a single instance of the feature for all instances of the classifier.
- 2017, Katalin Popovici, Pieter J. Mosterman, Real-Time Simulation Technologies, page 142:
- The figure also shows that instances can be associated with a classifier Behavior, which represents the behavior that active objects start executing when created.
Derived terms
Translations
someone who classifies
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(linguistics) word or morpheme used to indicate a semantic class — see also measure word
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a machine that separates particles or objects of different size or density
computing: a program or algorithm that classifies
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OOP: class which classifies other classes by features
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See also
- counter
- counting word
- measure word
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kla.si.fje/
Audio (France (Toulouse)): (file) Audio (France (Lyon)): (file) Audio (France (Somain)): (file)
Verb
classifier
- to classify
Conjugation
Conjugation of classifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | classifier | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | classifiant /kla.si.fjɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | classifié /kla.si.fje/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | classifie /kla.si.fi/ |
classifies /kla.si.fi/ |
classifie /kla.si.fi/ |
classifions /kla.si.fjɔ̃/ |
classifiez /kla.si.fje/ |
classifient /kla.si.fi/ |
| imperfect | classifiais /kla.si.fjɛ/ |
classifiais /kla.si.fjɛ/ |
classifiait /kla.si.fjɛ/ |
classifiions /kla.si.fi.jɔ̃/ |
classifiiez /kla.si.fi.je/ |
classifiaient /kla.si.fjɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | classifiai /kla.si.fje/ |
classifias /kla.si.fja/ |
classifia /kla.si.fja/ |
classifiâmes /kla.si.fjam/ |
classifiâtes /kla.si.fjat/ |
classifièrent /kla.si.fjɛʁ/ | |
| future | classifierai /kla.si.fi.ʁe/ |
classifieras /kla.si.fi.ʁa/ |
classifiera /kla.si.fi.ʁa/ |
classifierons /kla.si.fi.ʁɔ̃/ |
classifierez /kla.si.fi.ʁe/ |
classifieront /kla.si.fi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | classifierais /kla.si.fi.ʁɛ/ |
classifierais /kla.si.fi.ʁɛ/ |
classifierait /kla.si.fi.ʁɛ/ |
classifierions /kla.si.fi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
classifieriez /kla.si.fi.ʁje/ |
classifieraient /kla.si.fi.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | classifie /kla.si.fi/ |
classifies /kla.si.fi/ |
classifie /kla.si.fi/ |
classifiions /kla.si.fi.jɔ̃/ |
classifiiez /kla.si.fi.je/ |
classifient /kla.si.fi/ |
| imperfect2 | classifiasse /kla.si.fjas/ |
classifiasses /kla.si.fjas/ |
classifiât /kla.si.fja/ |
classifiassions /kla.si.fja.sjɔ̃/ |
classifiassiez /kla.si.fja.sje/ |
classifiassent /kla.si.fjas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | classifie /kla.si.fi/ |
— | classifions /kla.si.fjɔ̃/ |
classifiez /kla.si.fje/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Turkish: klasifiye (via past participle)
Further reading
- “classifier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012