classification vs indexing

indexing vs classification

classification and indexing both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
classification	Yes	No	No	No
indexing	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, indexing is a hyponym of classification; that is, indexing is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than classification:

classification: the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type
indexing: the act of classifying and providing an index in order to make items easier to retrieve

Other hyponyms of classification include reclassification, relegation, stratification, taxonomy, typology, hierarchisation, hierarchization.

classification (noun)	indexing (noun)
the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type	the act of classifying and providing an index in order to make items easier to retrieve
restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people
the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories
a group of people or things arranged by class or category

Difference between classification and indexing

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