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categorical Definition

cat·egori·cal (kat′ə gôr′i kəl, -gär′-)

adjective

  1. without qualifications or conditions; absolute; positive; direct; explicit: said of a statement, theory, etc.
  2. of, as, or in a category

Etymology: LL categoricus: see category & -ical

categorical Related Forms
cat′·egor′i·cally adverb
categorical Synonyms

categorical

modif.

unqualified, unconditional, unequivocal, flat; see absolute 1, certain 3, definite 1.

categorical Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • imperative: Nothing has any point - except of course the categorical imperative.
  • predictor: Main effect ANOVA designs contain separate one-way ANOVA designs for 2 or more categorical predictors.
  • variable: A design with a single categorical predictor variable is called a one-way ANOVA design.
  • semantics: Anyway, back to some categorical semantics, then hopefully dinner and more Sunset Song later tonight.
  • denial: The matter was made worse by the failure of the relevant newspaper to include the University's categorical denial in its report.
  • assertion: And your categorical assertion that there is no middle ground is simply wrong.

Modifying Another Word

  • also: See also categorical predictor variables, design matrix; or General Linear Models.
  • not: Not just fatigue, but all the symptoms held to comprise the concept of CFS are dimensional, and not categorical, entities.
  • only: Only categorical ( nominal ) variables or variables with a relatively small number of different meaningful values should be crosstabulated.
  • too: The Commission had not examined the issues in detail however, and the present draft was too categorical.
  • all: Table presents the all categorical and underwriters figure the.
  • so: My investigations suggest that no one here was so categorical.

Preposition: in

  • nature: This measure is particularly useful if the data for the dimensions included in the analysis are categorical in nature.
categorical Quotes

I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.

—Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)