a class or division of people or things regarded as having particular shared characteristics 种类,类别 the various categories of research. 研究的各种不同类别。
(Philosophy)one of a possibly exhaustive set of classes among which all things might be distributed (哲)范畴 ■one of the a priori conceptions applied by the mind to sense impressions 先天概念之义 ■a relatively fundamental philosophical concept 比较基本的哲学概念
派生 categorial adjective 语源
late Middle English (in sense 2): from French catégorie or late Latin categoria, from Greek katēgoria 'statement, accusation', from katēgoros 'accuser'