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plural classifiers
Someone who classifies. quotations examples
He was a model of anal defensiveness: fastidious in his dress and appearance, a collector and putter of things in order, a classifier and labeler.
1995, Leonard Shengold, Delusions of Everyday Life, page 39
(linguistics) A word or morpheme used in some languages (such as Japanese and American Sign Language), in certain contexts (such as counting), to indicate the semantic class to which something belongs. examples
A machine that separates particles or objects of different size or density. examples
(computing) A program or algorithm that classifies. examples
(object-oriented programming) Class which classifies other classes by features. quotations examples
A classifier can have several types of extra information attached to it via a UML mechanism called adornments.
2005, Dan Pilone, Neil Pitman, UML 2.0 in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference, page 9
The owner scope of a feature specifies whether the feature appears in each instance of the classifier or whether there is just a single instance of the feature for all instances of the classifier.
2008, S.S.Jadhav B.S.Ainapure, Object Oriented Modeling & Design, page 3-40
The figure also shows that instances can be associated with a classifier Behavior, which represents the behavior that active objects start executing when created.
2017, Katalin Popovici, Pieter J. Mosterman, Real-Time Simulation Technologies, page 142