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interclassification en · NOUN

Etymology

From interclassify + -ication or inter- + classification.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The act or result of interclassifying.
   • That said, there is value in the subdivision or interclassification of data within a given code, and this need not necessarily require 'scalic' analyses. 2009, William Gibson, Andrew Brown, Working with Qualitative Data, →ISBN:
   • In turn, this necessitates different kinds of classifications and interclassifications of persons, problems, resources, symptoms, behavior patterns, and treatment goals. 1986, Francis Joseph Turner, Social Work Treatment: Interlocking Theoretical Approaches, page 508:
   • To help handle this complexity language makes use of what is perhaps the most subtle and intricate kind of interconnection or interclassification. It is called metaphor. 1963, Lawrence Sargent Hall, How thinking is written: an analytic approach to writing, page 267:
   • It is bothersome that Lanham, who as a student of rhetoric was one of the best at showing the complexities of rhetorical interclassification, overclassification, and misclassification, should offer such a dividing into vaguened twoness. 1985, Renaissance Et Réforme - Volume 9, page 225:

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