Scientific classification is a practice and science of categorization.
Scientific classification may also refer to: Chemical classification Mathematical classification, construction of subsets into a set Statistical classification, the mathematical problem of assigning a label to an object based on a set of its attributes or features
Biology Taxonomy (biology) Alpha taxonomy, the science of finding, describing and naming organisms Cladistics, a newer way of classifying organisms, based solely on phylogeny Linnaean taxonomy, the classic scientific classification system Virus classification, naming and sorting viruses
Astronomy Galaxy morphological classification Stellar classification
See also Categorization, general Classification of the sciences (Peirce) Linguistic typology Systematic name