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subclassification

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  • noun A subdivision of a classification

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sub- +‎ classification

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Examples

  • Plutoids should be another subclassification of planets.

    New Hubble Images Show Pluto is Changing | Universe Today 2010

  • Establishing the subclassification of a language group amounts to the creation of a relative chronology of the succession of divergences by which the languages of the group evolved out of their common proto-language.

    Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE 2008

  • The second kind of bigotry involved a subclassification of racism, relating to the shade of the skin tone.

    Kids Who Shook the World 2009

  • Persistent sexual arousal syndrome: A subclassification of female sexual arousal disorder, PSAS is defined as feelings of spontaneous, persistent and intense genital arousal with or without orgasm, with or without genital engorgement, in the absence of sexual desire. read more information about PSAS; read personal experiences of women with PSAS

    Dysfunction or Dissatisfaction? 2005

  • A proposed new approach to the clinical subclassification of depressive illness.

    The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993

  • However, assuming that such a classification — and also any subclassification — is upheld then one may next question whether all in each class are receiving equal or like treatment.

    EQUAL PROTECTION IN LAW MORRIS D. FORKOSCH 1968

  • The other manuscripts I have collated are more greatly affected by contamination and interpolation; of them _M_ and _F_ show some independence, while no subclassification can be made of _H_, _I_, _L_, or _T_.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • This subclassification also includes those exceedingly unusual patterns which may not be placed by definition into any other classes.

    The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation 1933

  • - When an impression is partially scarred, i.e., large scars about the core so that the _general type_ cannot be determined with _reasonable accuracy_, but the ridges allow reasonably accurate subclassifications by ridge tracings or counting, the impression should be given the primary value of the pattern of the corresponding finger and the subclassification value as indicated by the ridges of partially scarred impressions.

    The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation 1933

  • - When an impression is so scarred that neither the general type of pattern nor the ridge tracing or count can be determined with reasonable accuracy, the impression should be given both the general type value and the subclassification value of the corresponding finger of the other hand.

    The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation 1933

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