classificatory
IPA: kɫˈæsɪfɪkʌtɔri
adjective
- Serving to classify.
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Examples of "classificatory" in Sentences
- The term, also, has a resonance that goes beyond the modification of a geological classificatory scheme.
- _ -- Some of the natural sciences are said to be in what is known as the classificatory stage of development.
- As for random variations, he knew that vestigial structures, which exhibit relaxed selection, were of high classificatory value.
- He takes the scientific "experiment" to be the model for the use of "experimental" as a classificatory term in the discussion of literature.
- The problem with lenses, stencils, genres and any kind of classificatory system, as I've been pointing out this whole time, is that they inherently disregard one thing or another.
- It was pioneered by Franz Boas as a refreshing alternative to earlier classificatory methodologies (I'm thinking Lewis Henry Morgan here), containing the notion of cultural evolution and heavily overlayed with imperial assumption: "their present is our past; our present is their future."
- We see why certain characters are far more serviceable than others for classification; — why adaptive characters, though of paramount importance to the being, are of hardly any importance in classification; why characters derived from rudimentary parts, though of no service to the being, are often of high classificatory value; and why embryological characters are the most valuable of all.
- Darwin: We see why certain characters are far more serviceable than others for classification; why adaptive characters, though of paramount importance to the beings, are of hardly any importance in classification; why characters derived from rudimentary parts, though of no service to the beings, are often of high classificatory value; and why embryological characters are often the most valuable of all.
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