interclassify

English

Etymology

inter- +‎ classify

Verb

interclassify (third-person singular simple present interclassifies, present participle interclassifying, simple past and past participle interclassified)

1. To classify individual items into multiple categories.
   • 1943, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, Food Supply of the United States:

     The average value of Farm products per acre represents a calculation based on a 2-percent sample of farms interclassified by value of products and size of farm, exclusive of farms not classified as to value of products.

   • 1975, Lawrence Sargent Hall, How Thinking Is Written: An Analytic Approach to Writing, page 269:

     By the single word "appalls," in a kind of pun, he expresses a metaphorical meaning that interclassifies a sooty church with a coffin with a pall, an impotent faith with a corpse, and industrial evil with death, so that all of these modify each other and are modified finally by the affective meaning of death and the shrinking horror of our response to it.

   • 1997, Kjell Weppling, On the Assessment of Feasible Liming Strategies for Acid Sulphate Waters in Finland, page 25:

     So far there have been no attempts to interclassify the metals according to their toxicity, but existing waterchemical data suggests that aluminium generally is the dominating metal cation.

   • 2012, Herman R. Holtz, Government Contracts: Proposalmanship and Winning Strategies, →ISBN:

     Each may be subclassified in several ways and interclassified—any of the latter three classifications, for example, may be subclassified as big-buck versus small-buck markets.