Classification and Purpose

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

• An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.
  • usage: "his intent was to provide a new translation"; "good intentions are not enough"; "it was created with the conscious aim of answering immediate needs"; "he made no secret of his designs"
  • synonyms: intent, intention, aim, design
• What something is used for.
  • usage: "the function of an auger is to bore holes"; "ballet is beautiful but what use is it"
  • synonyms: function, role, use
• The quality of being determined to do or achieve something; firmness of purpose.
  • usage: "his determination showed in his every movement"; "he is a man of purpose"
  • synonyms: determination

verb

• Propose or intend.
  • usage: "I aim to arrive at noon"
  • synonyms: aim, purport, propose
• Reach a decision.
  • usage: "he resolved never to drink again"
  • synonyms: resolve

• (n.) That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan.
• (v.t.) To propose, as an aim, to one's self; to determine upon, as some end or object to be accomplished; to intend; to design; to resolve; -- often followed by an infinitive or dependent clause.
• (v.t.) To set forth; to bring forward.
• (n.) Proposal to another; discourse.
• (n.) Instance; example.
• (v.i.) To have a purpose or intention; to discourse.