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# classifier

noun (classifier, classifiers)

«classifier» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A person or thing that sorts things into groups. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/classifier/#m1)
2. (computing) A computer program that decides which group or label something belongs to, like spam or not spam. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/classifier/#m2)
3. (language) In some languages like Mandarin, a word used between a number and a noun, like «a piece of» in English. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/classifier/#m3)

### In the lessons

In science lessons, scientists classify animals, and a classifier is a tool or key for sorting. In computing and AI lessons, a classifier learns from examples to label new things. In Mandarin, «ge» is a common classifier.

### Examples

- The classifier sorted the emails into spam and not spam. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/classifier/#x1)
- A classification key is a kind of classifier for animals. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/classifier/#x2)
- In Mandarin, you need a classifier between the number and the noun. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/classifier/#x3)
- The AI classifier recognised the cat in the photo. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/classifier/#x4)
- «A loaf of bread» works like a classifier in English. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/classifier/#x5)
- We trained a classifier on pictures of fruit. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/classifier/#x6)

### Note

From «classify». Countable. A classifier can be wrong; it makes guesses based on what it learned.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «classifier» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/classifier/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«classifier» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/classifier.html) on Mova free.