The classification of languages according to their linguistic features, such as word order, morphological structure, and phonological phenomena.

A synonym for classification.

The classification of artifacts according to analytical criteria, to determine and define significant trends or variations in time and space.

The study or analysis of the classification of types, e.g., of categories in the classification of living organisms or of languages.

classification according to general type

a multidimensional classification, in which the categories are distinguished from a conceptual rather than an empirical perspective

a system of classification of data in an effort to improve understanding

the study of artifacts by their type; classifying artifacts by their type (the second of the two main principles of archaeology)

is another term for classification which is usually multi-dimensional and conceptual. One cell of a typological table is a taxon, from the taxonomy. Taxonomy generally refers to classification of empirical entities. Multiple cells within a classification table are taxa. These types of types are also called sub-types or sub-taxa (Bailey, 1994).

a classification of objects into groups (or types) according to similar traits; the study of types through time to establish a chronology

the systematic organization of artifacts into types on the basis of shared attributes.

In archaeology a typology is the result of the classification of things according to their characteristics. It is based on a view of the world familiar from Plato's metaphysics called essentialism. Essentialism is the idea that world is divided into real, discontinuous and immutable ‘kinds’.