Category, plural categories, may refer to:

General uses Classification, the general act of allocating things to classes/categories

Philosophy Category of being Categories (Aristotle) Categoriae Decem Category (Kant) Categories (Peirce) Category (Vaisheshika) Stoic categories Category mistake

Science Cognitive categorization, categories in cognitive science Statistical classification, statistical methods used to effect classification/categorization

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), a classic party 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

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)