category
/ˈkætɪgərɪ/noun
(pl. -ies)
1
- a class or division of people or things regarded as having particular shared characteristics种类, 类别：
the various categories of research.
研究的各种不同类别。
2
- Philosophy one of a possibly exhaustive set of classes among which all things might be distributed【哲】范畴。
2.1
- one of the a priori conceptions applied by the mind to sense impressions先天概念之义。
2.2
- a relatively fundamental philosophical concept比较基本的哲学概念。
派生词
categorial
adjective词源
late Middle English (in sense 2)： from French catégorie or late Latin categoria, from Greek katēgoria 'statement， accusation'， from katēgoros 'accuser'.