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interclassify

interclassify verb: to classify individual items into multiple categories.

Verb

interclassify (third-person singular simple present interclassifies, present participle interclassifying, simple past and past participle interclassified)

  1. To classify individual items into multiple categories.
    • The average value of Farm products per acre represents a calculation based on a 2-percent sample of farms interclassified by value of products and size of farm, exclusive of farms not classified as to value of products.1943, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, Food Supply of the United States
    • By the single word "appalls," in a kind of pun, he expresses a metaphorical meaning that interclassifies a sooty church with a coffin with a pall, an impotent faith with a corpse, and industrial evil with death, so that all of these modify each other and are modified finally by the affective...1975, Lawrence Sargent Hall, How Thinking Is Written: An Analytic Approach to Writing, page 269

Forms of interclassify

third-person singular presentinterclassifies
present participleinterclassifying
past participleinterclassified
pastinterclassified

Origin of interclassify

From inter- + classify.

Words formed from interclassify

Questions about interclassify

What does interclassify mean?
Interclassify means to classify individual items into multiple categories.
What part of speech is interclassify?
Interclassify is a verb.
What is the past tense of interclassify?
The past tense of interclassify is interclassified.

Words near interclassify in the dictionary

  1. interclass
  2. interclassification
  3. interclassifications
  4. interclassified
  5. interclassifies
  6. interclassify
  7. interclassifying
  8. interclassist
  9. interclast
  10. interclasts
  11. interclausal

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