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Category, plural categories, may refer to:

Philosophy and general uses

• Categorization, categories in cognitive science, information science and generally
• Category of being
• Categories (Aristotle)
• Category (Kant)
• Categories (Peirce)
• Category (Vaisheshika)
• Stoic categories
• Category mistake

Mathematics

• Category (mathematics), a structure consisting of objects and arrows
• Category (topology), in the context of Baire spaces
• Lusternik–Schnirelmann category, sometimes called LS-category or simply category
• Categorical data, in statistics

Linguistics

• Lexical category, a part of speech such as noun, preposition, etc.
• Syntactic category, a similar concept which can also include phrasal categories
• Grammatical category, a grammatical feature such as tense, gender, etc.

Other

• Category (chess tournament)
• Objective-C categories, a computer programming concept
• Pregnancy category
• Prisoner security categories in the United Kingdom
• Weight class (boxing)
• List of software categories
• Categories (word game)
• Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale, a common categorization of hurricane intensities
• Categories of New Testament manuscripts
• Network cable categories: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5/5e, 6/6a, 7/7a (F)
• A classification in a system of compartmentalization (information security)

See also

• All pages with titles containing Category
• Categorical (disambiguation)
• Category 1 (disambiguation)
• Category 2 (disambiguation)
• Category 3 (disambiguation)
• Category 4 (disambiguation)
• Category 5 (disambiguation)
• Category 6 (disambiguation)
• Category 7: The End of the World
• Category A (disambiguation)
• Category B (disambiguation)
• Category C (disambiguation)

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