# Category

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For information about Wikipedia's article categories, see Help:Category.

**Category**, plural **categories**, may refer to:

## General uses

- [Classification](/source/Classification), the general act of allocating things to classes/categories

## Philosophy

- [Category of being](/source/Category_of_being)
- [*Categories* (Aristotle)](/source/Categories_(Aristotle))
- *[Categoriae Decem](/source/Categoriae_Decem)*
- [Category (Kant)](/source/Category_(Kant))
- [Categories (Peirce)](/source/Categories_(Peirce))
- [Category (Vaisheshika)](/source/Category_(Vaisheshika))
- [Stoic categories](/source/Stoic_categories)
- [Category mistake](/source/Category_mistake)

## Science

- [Cognitive categorization](/source/Cognitive_categorization), categories in cognitive science
- [Statistical classification](/source/Statistical_classification), statistical methods used to effect classification/categorization

## Mathematics

- [Category (mathematics)](/source/Category_(mathematics)), a structure consisting of objects and arrows
- [Category (topology)](/source/Category_(topology)), in the context of Baire spaces
- [Lusternik–Schnirelmann category](/source/Lusternik%E2%80%93Schnirelmann_category), sometimes called *LS-category* or simply *category*
- [Categorical data](/source/Categorical_data), in statistics

## Linguistics

Main article: [Linguistic categories](/source/Linguistic_categories)

- [Lexical category](/source/Lexical_category), a part of speech such as *noun*, *preposition*, etc.
- [Syntactic category](/source/Syntactic_category), a similar concept which can also include phrasal categories
- [Grammatical category](/source/Grammatical_category), a grammatical feature such as *tense*, *gender*, etc.

## Other

- [Category (chess tournament)](/source/Category_(chess_tournament))
- [Objective-C categories](/source/Objective-C#Categories), a computer programming concept
- [Pregnancy category](/source/Pregnancy_category)
- [Prisoner security categories in the United Kingdom](/source/Prisoner_security_categories_in_the_United_Kingdom)
- [Weight class (boxing)](/source/Weight_class_(boxing))
- [List of software categories](/source/List_of_software_categories)
- [Categories (word game)](/source/Categories_(word_game)), a classic party game
- [Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale](/source/Saffir%E2%80%93Simpson_hurricane_wind_scale), a common categorization of hurricane intensities
- [Categories of New Testament manuscripts](/source/Categories_of_New_Testament_manuscripts)
- Network cable categories: [1](/source/Category_1_cable), [2](/source/Category_2_cable), [3](/source/Category_3_cable), [4](/source/Category_4_cable), [5/5e](/source/Category_5_cable), [6/6a](/source/Category_6_cable), [7/7a (F)](/source/Class_F_cable)
- A classification in a system of [compartmentalization (information security)](/source/Compartmentalization_(information_security))

## See also

- [Categorical (disambiguation)](/source/Categorical_(disambiguation))
- [Category 1 (disambiguation)](/source/Category_1_(disambiguation))
- [Category 2 (disambiguation)](/source/Category_2_(disambiguation))
- [Category 3 (disambiguation)](/source/Category_3_(disambiguation))
- [Category 4 (disambiguation)](/source/Category_4_(disambiguation))
- [Category 5 (disambiguation)](/source/Category_5_(disambiguation))
- [Category 6 (disambiguation)](/source/Category_6_(disambiguation))
- [Category 7: The End of the World](/source/Category_7:_The_End_of_the_World)
- [Category A (disambiguation)](/source/Category_A_(disambiguation))
- [Category B (disambiguation)](/source/Category_B_(disambiguation))
- [Category C (disambiguation)](/source/Category_C_(disambiguation))

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