interclassification

English

Etymology

interclassify +‎ -ication or inter- +‎ classification

Noun

interclassification (countable and uncountable, plural interclassifications)

1. The act or result of interclassifying.
   • 1963, Lawrence Sargent Hall, How thinking is written: an analytic approach to writing, page 267:

     To help handle this complexity language makes use of what is perhaps the most subtle and intricate kind of interconnection or interclassification. It is called metaphor.

   • 1985, Renaissance Et Réforme - Volume 9, page 225:

     It is bothersome that Lanham, who as a student of rhetoric was one of the best at showing the complexities of rhetorical interclassification, overclassification, and misclassification, should offer such a dividing into vaguened twoness.

   • 1986, Francis Joseph Turner, Social Work Treatment: Interlocking Theoretical Approaches, page 508:

     In turn, this necessitates different kinds of classifications and interclassifications of persons, problems, resources, symptoms, behavior patterns, and treatment goals.

   • 2009, William Gibson, Andrew Brown, Working with Qualitative Data, →ISBN:

     That said, there is value in the subdivision or interclassification of data within a given code, and this need not necessarily require 'scalic' analyses.