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English
Etymology
classify + -er.
Pronunciation
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 Japanese and American Sign Language), 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) Class which classifies other classes by 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
(linguistics) word or morpheme used to indicate a semantic class
— see also measure word
- American Sign Language: C@Side-PalmAcross L@Side-PalmAcross
- Bengali: please add this translation if you can
- Burmese: သင်္ချာပစ္စည်း (my) (sanghkyapaccany:)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 量詞/量词 (zh) (liàngcí)
- French: classificateur (fr) m, mot de mesure m
- German: Zählwort n, Zählklassenwort n, Zähleinheitswort (de) n, Numeralklassifikator m, Zahlklassifikator m, Klassifikator m
- Hungarian: számlálószó
- Japanese: 助数詞 (ja) (じょすうし, josūshi), 類別詞 (るいべつし, ruibetsushi), 量詞 (りょうし, ryōshi)
- Khmer: នាមរនាប់ (neam ronuab), សំខ្យានុគ្រោះ (km) (sâmkhyanŭkruŏh)
- Korean: 수분류사(數分類詞) (subullyusa), 양수사(量數詞) (yangsusa)
- Lao: ລັກສະນະນາມ (lak sa na nām)
- Malay: penjodoh bilangan
- Portuguese: classificador (pt) m
- Russian: классифика́тор (ru) m (klassifikátor), счётное сло́во n (sčótnoje slóvo)
- Swedish: klassmärke n
- Thai: ลักษณนาม (th) (lák-sà-nà-naam)
- Vietnamese: loại từ (vi), danh từ loại thể, danh từ chỉ đơn vị tự nhiên
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a machine that separates particles or objects of different size or density
computing: a program or algorithm that classifies
OOP: class which classifies other classes by features
See also
French
Etymology
From classe + -ifier.
Pronunciation
Verb
classifier
- to classify
Conjugation
infinitive
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simple
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classifier
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compound
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avoir + past participle
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present participle or gerund1
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simple
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classifiant /kla.si.fjɑ̃/
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compound
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ayant + past participle
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past participle
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classifié /kla.si.fje/
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singular
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plural
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first
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second
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third
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first
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second
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third
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indicative
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je (j’)
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tu
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il, elle, on
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nous
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vous
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ils, elles
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(simple tenses)
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present
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classifie /kla.si.fi/
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classifies /kla.si.fi/
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classifie /kla.si.fi/
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classifions /kla.si.fjɔ̃/
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classifiez /kla.si.fje/
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classifient /kla.si.fi/
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imperfect
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classifiais /kla.si.fjɛ/
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classifiais /kla.si.fjɛ/
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classifiait /kla.si.fjɛ/
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classifiions /kla.si.fi.jɔ̃/
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classifiiez /kla.si.fi.je/
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classifiaient /kla.si.fjɛ/
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past historic2
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classifiai /kla.si.fje/
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classifias /kla.si.fja/
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classifia /kla.si.fja/
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classifiâmes /kla.si.fjam/
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classifiâtes /kla.si.fjat/
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classifièrent /kla.si.fjɛʁ/
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future
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classifierai /kla.si.fi.ʁe/
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classifieras /kla.si.fi.ʁa/
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classifiera /kla.si.fi.ʁa/
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classifierons /kla.si.fi.ʁɔ̃/
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classifierez /kla.si.fi.ʁe/
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classifieront /kla.si.fi.ʁɔ̃/
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conditional
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classifierais /kla.si.fi.ʁɛ/
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classifierais /kla.si.fi.ʁɛ/
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classifierait /kla.si.fi.ʁɛ/
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classifierions /kla.si.fi.ʁjɔ̃/
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classifieriez /kla.si.fi.ʁje/
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classifieraient /kla.si.fi.ʁɛ/
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(compound tenses)
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present perfect
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present indicative of avoir + past participle
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pluperfect
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imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
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past anterior2
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past historic of avoir + past participle
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future perfect
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future of avoir + past participle
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conditional perfect
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conditional of avoir + past participle
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subjunctive
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que je (j’)
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que tu
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qu’il, qu’elle
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que nous
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que vous
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qu’ils, qu’elles
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(simple tenses)
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present
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classifie /kla.si.fi/
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classifies /kla.si.fi/
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classifie /kla.si.fi/
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classifiions /kla.si.fi.jɔ̃/
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classifiiez /kla.si.fi.je/
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classifient /kla.si.fi/
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imperfect2
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classifiasse /kla.si.fjas/
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classifiasses /kla.si.fjas/
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classifiât /kla.si.fja/
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classifiassions /kla.si.fja.sjɔ̃/
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classifiassiez /kla.si.fja.sje/
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classifiassent /kla.si.fjas/
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(compound tenses)
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past
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present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
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pluperfect2
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imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
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imperative
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–
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tu
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–
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nous
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vous
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–
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simple
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—
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classifie /kla.si.fi/
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—
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classifions /kla.si.fjɔ̃/
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classifiez /kla.si.fje/
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—
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compound
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—
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simple imperative of avoir + past participle
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—
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simple imperative of avoir + past participle
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simple imperative of avoir + past participle
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—
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1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
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2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
- past historic → present perfect
- past anterior → pluperfect
- imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
- pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive
(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).
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