Classification and Description

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 statement that represents something in words.
  • synonyms: verbal description
• The act of describing something.
• Sort or variety.
  • usage: "every description of book was there"

• (n.) The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
• (n.) A class to which a certain representation is applicable; kind; sort.
• (n.) A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.

Also known as "Legal' DESCRIPTION'". The manner in which a piece of land is identified. May involve metes and bounds measurements using astronomic bearings or may simply set out Lot and Plan numbers in a specific municipality. Most jurisdictions require description of land to be included in all instruments to be registered on title to that property.