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categorists

categorists is the plural of categorist.

Meaning of categorist

Noun

categorist (plural categorists)

  1. Someone who categorizes.
    • Strictly speaking, Swedenborg’s revelation is a confounding of planes,—a capital offence in so learned a categorist.1850, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Swedenborg; or, the Mystic”, in Representative Men
    Synonyms:
    categorizer
  2. A mathematician who specializes in category theory.
    • The concept of path of arrows is what the categorist uses instead of the concept of word or string of symbols.1988, Michael Main, Austin Melton, Michael Mislove, Mathematical Foundations of Programming Language Semantics, page 498

Questions about categorists

What is categorists the plural of?
Categorists is the plural of categorist.

Words near categorists in the dictionary

  1. categoriser
  2. categorisers
  3. categorises
  4. categorising
  5. categorist
  6. categorists
  7. categorizability
  8. categorizable
  9. categorization
  10. categorizational
  11. categorizations

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