The act of putting into classes
arrangement, assortment, grouping, sorting, ordering, allotment, organization, gradation, coordination, graduation, disposal, disposition, reducing to order, categorizing, categorization, apportionment, tabulating, consignment, orderly arrangement, analysis, division, assignment, designation, taxonomy, typology, collocation, sizing, grading, ranking, cataloging, indexing, filing, labeling, distribution, allocation, systematization, codification; see also order 3.