noun
- the process of grouping data or items into categories or ranges
- the act of putting items into bins or containers
Usage: statistics; data analysis
verb
- present participle of bin; throwing something away in a trash container
Usage: British English
Examples
- She’s binning all the old magazines from the attic.
- The data binning process helped identify patterns in the survey results.
- The warehouse workers spent the morning binning the new inventory.
- Stop binning things that might be useful later!
- The histogram required careful binning of the temperature measurements.
- Binning the recycling materials took longer than expected.
- The software automatically handles the binning of customer data by age groups.