Classification and Alias

noun

• The act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type.
  • synonyms: categorization, categorisation, compartmentalization, compartmentalisation, assortment
• A group of people or things arranged by class or category.
  • synonyms: categorization, categorisation
• The basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories.
  • synonyms: categorization, categorisation, sorting
• Restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people. .

(n.) The act of forming into a class or classes; a distibution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or affinities.

(DoD) The determination that official information requires, in the interests of national security, a specific degree of protection against unauthorized disclosure, coupled with a designation signifying that such a determination has been made. See also security classification.

noun

• A name that has been assumed temporarily.
  • synonyms: assumed name, false name

adverb

• As known or named at another time or place.
  • usage: "Mr. Smith, alias Mr. Lafayette"
  • synonyms: a. K. A., also known as

• (n.) A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.
• (n.) Another name; an assumed name.
• (adv.) At another time.
• (adv.) Otherwise; otherwise called; -- a term used in legal proceedings to connect the different names of any one who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful; as, Smith, alias Simpson.

(latin) alias - at another time, otherwise