category
A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
Noun 2 meanings
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.”
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.”
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.
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CATEGORY at a glance
CATEGORY has 8 letters and scores 14 points in Scrabble (C 3 + A 1 + T 1 + E 1 + G 2 + O 1 + R 1 + Y 4) and 15 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,558 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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