classifier
noun
clas·​si·​fi·​er
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Definition of classifier
1
: one that classifies
specifically
: a machine for sorting out the constituents of a substance (such as ore)
2
: a word or morpheme used with numerals or with nouns designating countable or measurable objects
Examples of classifier in a Sentence
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As scammers develop new methods to trick the AI … YouTube engineers will update the classifiers to overcome those tricks. — Los Angeles Times, "YouTube will use spotty AI to keep targeted ads off videos for kids," 4 Sep. 2019 Plus, there’s a good chance that many of the singles putting their Myers-Briggs classifier in their app bios aren’t quite grasping what their personality type even means. — Allie Volpe, Washington Post, "Four letters can say a lot: Why people put their Myers-Briggs personality types in their Tinder profiles," 15 Aug. 2019 Take one of its most common applications, as an image classifier. — Jordana Cepelewicz, WIRED, "Clues to Our Unknown Ancestors Are Hiding in Our Genome," 10 Feb. 2019 Take one of its most common applications, as an image classifier. — Quanta Magazine, "Artificial Intelligence Finds Ancient ‘Ghosts’ in Modern DNA," 7 Feb. 2019 Of course, these initial examples can’t cover everything a classifier encounters in the wild. — Katy Steinmetz, Time, "Inside Instagram's War on Bullying," 8 July 2019 This way, the system ended up with different certainty levels on different classifiers. — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, "To make Curiosity (et al) more curious, NASA and ESA smarten up AI in space," 16 July 2018 On a landscape-mode display, accuracy of the classifiers was much lower, with a first-guess success rate of only 40.8 percent. — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, "Researchers find way to spy on remote screens—through the webcam mic," 28 Aug. 2018 In one case, Ouster fed intensity and depth data from a drive around San Francisco into a pixel-level classifier. — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, "This lidar/camera hybrid could be a powerful addition to driverless cars," 4 Sep. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'classifier.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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