indexing vs classification

classification vs indexing

indexing and classification both are nouns.

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

As nouns, classification is a hypernym of indexing; that is, classification is a word with a broader meaning than indexing:

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

Other hypernyms of indexing include assortment, categorisation, categorization, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization.

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

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