CLASSIFIER


Meaning of CLASSIFIER in English

/klas"euh fuy'euhr/ , n.

1. a person or thing that classifies.

2. a device for separating solids of different characteristics by controlled rates of settling.

3. Gram. (in Chinese, Japanese, and other languages) a word or morpheme that corresponds to a semantic class of nouns and regularly accompanies any noun of that class in certain syntactic constructions, such as those of numeration.

[ 1810-20; CLASSIFY + -ER 1 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .