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'''Category''', plural '''categories''',  may refer to:

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==General uses==
*[[Classification]], the general act of allocating things to classes/categories
==Philosophy==
*[[Category of being]]
*[[Categories (Aristotle)|''Categories'' (Aristotle)]]
*[[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==
{{Main|Linguistic categories}}

*[[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|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: [[Category 1 cable|1]], [[Category 2 cable|2]], [[Category 3 cable|3]], [[Category 4 cable|4]], [[Category 5 cable|5/5e]], [[Category 6 cable|6/6a]], [[Class F cable|7/7a (F)]]
* A classification in a system of [[compartmentalization (information security)]]

==See also==
* {{intitle|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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