Usually means: Grouping based on shared characteristics.
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General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. category: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. category: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. category: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. category: Collins English Dictionary
  5. category: Vocabulary.com
  6. Category, category: Wordnik
  7. category: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. category: Wiktionary
  9. category: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. category: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. category: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Category, category: Dictionary.com
  13. category: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. category: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Category (Kant), Category (category theory), Category (chess tournament), Category (mathematics), Category (philosophy), Category (taxonomy), Category (topology), Category: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Category: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. category: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. category: Rhymezone
  19. category: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. category: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. category: Free Dictionary
  22. category: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. category: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. category: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. category: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. category: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Category (disambiguation), category: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. category: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Category: Cybernetics and Systems
  3. Category (disambiguation), Category (taxonomy), Category (topology), category: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Category (taxonomy): Medical dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Category: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. -category, -category, -category, -category, -category, -category, category: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  3. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)
  4. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. category: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Category: Chess Dictionary
  2. Category: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. category: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. category: Canadian Soil Information System
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

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noun:  A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
noun:  (mathematics) A collection of objects, together with a transitively closed collection of composable arrows between them, such that every object has an identity arrow, and such that arrow composition is associative.

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