Dew|ey decimal system

Dew|ey decimal system
Dew|ey decimal system «DOO ee, DYOO-»,
a widely used system of library classification for books according to subject matter, in which specific three-digit numbers and decimals represent the various fields and their subdivisions.
[< Melvil Dewey, 1851-1931, an American librarian, who devised it]

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