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Return the address of the non&hyphen;modifiable category object indicating the category of the metric described by this object&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;balm&lowbar;metricdescription&period;h&gt;`

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xref:BloombergLP/balm/Category.adoc[Category] const*
category() const;
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