category of categories
21Categories — Category Cat e*go*ry, n.; pl. {Categories}. [L. categoria, Gr. ?, fr. ? to accuse, affirm, predicate; ? down, against + ? to harrangue, assert, fr. ? assembly.] 1. (Logic.) One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought… …
22Category — Cat e*go*ry, n.; pl. {Categories}. [L. categoria, Gr. ?, fr. ? to accuse, affirm, predicate; ? down, against + ? to harrangue, assert, fr. ? assembly.] 1. (Logic.) One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be… …
23Category 1 cable — (Cat 1) a.k.a. voice grade copper is a misnomer, probably adopted by those who assumed that TIA set up Categories for all types of cables originally defined by Anixter, the distributor, under the grades called Levels. TIA 568 only recognized… …
24Category 2 cable — Category 2 cable, or simply Cat 2, is a misnomer, probably adopted by those who assumed that TIA set up Categories for all types of cables originally defined by Anixter, the distributor, under the grades called Levels. TIA 568 only recognized… …
25category killer — category discounter An exceptionally aggressive off price retailer that offers branded merchandise in clearly defined product categories at heavily discounted prices. Their predatory pricing strategy and ability to decimate much of the… …
26category — ► NOUN (pl. categories) ▪ a class or division of people or things having shared characteristics. ORIGIN Greek kat goria statement, accusation …
27category — [kat′ə gôr΄ē] n. pl. categories [LL categoria < Gr katēgoria < katēgorein, to accuse, assert, predicate < kata , down, against + agoreuein, to declaim, address an assembly < agora, AGORA1] 1. a class or division in a scheme of… …
28Category (mathematics) — In mathematics, a category is an algebraic structure that comprises objects that are linked by arrows . A category has two basic properties: the ability to compose the arrows associatively and the existence of an identity arrow for each object. A …
29Category of rings — In mathematics, the category of rings, denoted by Ring, is the category whose objects are rings (with identity) and whose morphisms are ring homomorphisms (preserving the identity). Like many categories in mathematics, the category of rings is… …
30category — /kat i gawr ee, gohr ee/, n., pl. categories. 1. any general or comprehensive division; a class. 2. a classificatory division in any field of knowledge, as a phylum or any of its subdivisions in biology. 3. Metaphys. a. (in Aristotelian… …
