Scientific classification is a practice and science of categorization.
Scientific classification may also refer to:
- Chemical classification
- Mathematical classification, construction of subsets into a set
- Statistical classification, the mathematical problem of assigning a label to an object based on a set of its attributes or features
Biology
- Taxonomy (biology)
- Alpha taxonomy, the science of finding, describing and naming organisms
- Cladistics, a newer way of classifying organisms, based solely on phylogeny
- Linnaean taxonomy, the classic scientific classification system
- Virus classification, naming and sorting viruses
Astronomy
- Galaxy morphological classification
- Stellar classification
See also
- Categorization, general
- Classification of the sciences (Peirce)
- Linguistic typology
- Systematic name