classificatory

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The possibilities of streaming have inspired a new "classificatory imagination."

From Salon • Oct. 23, 2021

We should also consider some of the potential consequences of the classificatory imagination.

From Salon • Oct. 23, 2021

But by the 1970s the classificatory impulse as a vehicle for scientific legitimacy came to the fore.

From Washington Post • Sep. 2, 2021

A survey conducted in 1993 by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University found that Goddard’s classificatory system was still used to evaluate the eligibility of a candidate for medical care.

From Slate • Jun. 14, 2021

The following facts of classificatory importance may now be considered, but their full force will be better appreciated after the study of other vertebrate types.

From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)