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class

[klas, klahs] Pronunciation Key

–noun

1.	a number of persons or things regarded as forming a group by reason of common attributes, characteristics, qualities, or traits; kind; sort: a class of objects used in daily living.

2.	a group of students meeting regularly to study a subject under the guidance of a teacher: The class had arrived on time for the lecture.

3.	the period during which a group of students meets for instruction.

4.	a meeting of a group of students for instruction.

5.	a classroom.

6.	a number of pupils in a school, or of students in a college, pursuing the same studies, ranked together, or graduated in the same year: She graduated from Ohio State, class of '72.

7.	a social stratum sharing basic economic, political, or cultural characteristics, and having the same social position: Artisans form a distinct class in some societies.

8.	the system of dividing society; caste.

9.	social rank, esp. high rank.

10.	the members of a given group in society, regarded as a single entity.

11.	any division of persons or things according to rank or grade: Hotels were listed by class, with the most luxurious ones listed first.

12.	excellence; exceptional merit: She's a good performer, but she lacks class.

13.	Hinduism. any of the four social divisions, the Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaisya, and Shudra, of Hindu society; varna. Compare caste (def. 2).

14.	Informal. elegance, grace, or dignity, as in dress and behavior: He may be a slob, but his brother has real class.

15.	any of several grades of accommodations available on ships, airplanes, and the like: We bought tickets for first class.

16.	Informal. the best or among the best of its kind: This new plane is the class of the wide-bodied airliners.

17.	Biology. the usual major subdivision of a phylum or division in the classification of organisms, usually consisting of several orders.

18.	British University. any of three groups into which candidates for honors degrees are divided according to merit on the basis of final examinations.

19.	drafted or conscripted soldiers, or persons available for draft or conscription, all of whom were born in the same year.

20.	Grammar. form class.

21.	Ecclesiastical. classis.

22.	(in early Methodism) one of several small companies, each composed of about 12 members under a leader, into which each society or congregation was divided.

23.	Statistics. a group of measurements that fall within a specified interval.

24.	Mathematics. a set; a collection.

25.	the classes, the higher ranks of society, as distinguished from the masses.

–adjective

26.	Informal. of high quality, integrity, status, or style: class players on a mediocre team.

–verb (used with object)

27.	to place or arrange in a class; classify: to class justice with wisdom.

–verb (used without object)

28.	to take or have a place in a particular class: those who class as believers.

—Verb phrase

29.	class up, Informal. to improve the quality, tone, or status of; add elegance, dignity, style, etc., to: The new carpet and curtains really class up this room.

[Origin: 1590–1600; earlier classis, pl. classes < L: class, division, fleet, army; sing. class back formation from pl.

]

—Related forms

class·a·ble, adjective

classer, noun

—Synonyms 27. group, categorize, type, rank, rate.

—Usage note See collective noun.

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class.

classic.

2.	classical.

3.	classification.

4.	classified.

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class (klās) Pronunciation Key
n.

A set, collection, group, or configuration containing members regarded as having certain attributes or traits in common; a kind or category.
A division based on quality, rank, or grade, as:
1. A grade of mail: a package sent third class.
2. A quality of accommodation on public transport: tourist class.
3. A social stratum whose members share certain economic, social, or cultural characteristics: the lower-income classes.
4. Social rank or caste, especially high rank.
5. Informal Elegance of style, taste, and manner: an actor with class.
6. A group of students who are taught together because they have roughly the same level of academic development.
7. A group of students or alumni who have the same year of graduation.
8. A group of students who meet at a regularly scheduled time to study the same subject.
9. The period during which such a group meets: had to stay after class.
1. A social stratum whose members share certain economic, social, or cultural characteristics: the lower-income classes.
2. Social rank or caste, especially high rank.
3. Informal Elegance of style, taste, and manner: an actor with class.
4. A group of students who are taught together because they have roughly the same level of academic development.
5. A group of students or alumni who have the same year of graduation.
6. A group of students who meet at a regularly scheduled time to study the same subject.
7. The period during which such a group meets: had to stay after class.
A level of academic development, as in an elementary or secondary school.
1. A group of students who are taught together because they have roughly the same level of academic development.
2. A group of students or alumni who have the same year of graduation.
3. A group of students who meet at a regularly scheduled time to study the same subject.
4. The period during which such a group meets: had to stay after class.
Biology A taxonomic category ranking below a phylum or division and above an order. See Table at taxonomy.
Statistics An interval in a frequency distribution.
Linguistics A group of words belonging to the same grammatical category that share a particular set of morphological properties, such as a set of inflections.

tr.v. classed, class·ing, class·es
To arrange, group, or rate according to qualities or characteristics; assign to a class; classify.

[French classe, from Latin classis, class of citizens; see kelə-² in Indo-European roots.]

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1602, from Fr. classe, from L. classis, one of the six orders into which Servius Tullius divided the Roman people for the purposes of taxation, traditionally originally "the people of Rome under arms," and thus akin to calare "to call (to arms)" (see calendar). School and university sense (1656) is from the notion of a form or lecture reserved to a certain level of scholars. Natural history sense is from 1753. Meaning "a division of society according to status" is from 1772. The verb is first recorded 1705. Classy is from 1891. Class-consciousness (1903) is from Ger. klassenbewusst.

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class
noun
1.	a collection of things sharing a common attribute; "there are two classes of detergents"
2.	a body of students who are taught together; "early morning classes are always sleepy"
3.	people having the same social, economic, or educational status; "the working class"; "an emerging professional class"
4.	education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings; "he took a course in basket weaving"; "flirting is not unknown in college classes" [syn: course]
5.	a league ranked by quality; "he played baseball in class D for two years"; "Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA"
6.	a body of students who graduate together; "the class of '97"; "she was in my year at Hoehandle High"
7.	(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
8.	elegance in dress or behavior; "she has a lot of class"
verb
1.	arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?" [syn: classify]

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class

see cut class.

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class (klās) Pronunciation Key

A taxonomic category of organisms ranking above an order and below a phylum or division. In modern taxonomic schemes, the names of classes end in -phyceae for the various groups of algae, -mycetes for fungi, and -opsida for plants (as in Liliopsida, the class of plants also termed monocotyledons). The names of classes belonging to phyla of the animal kingdom, however, are formed in various ways, as Osteichthyes the bony fishes, Aves, the birds, and Mammalia, the mammals, all of which are classes belonging to the subphylum Vertebrata (the vertebrates) in the phylum Chordata. See Table at taxonomy.

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A group of people sharing the same social, economic, or occupational status. The term class usually implies a social and economic hierarchy, in which those of higher class standing have greater status, privilege, prestige, and authority. Western societies have traditionally been divided into three classes: the upper or leisure class, the middle class (bourgeoisie), and the lower or working class. For Marxists, the significant classes are the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.

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class

In biology, the classification beneath a phylum and above an order. (See Linnean classification.)

Note: Mammals, reptiles, and insects are classes.

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class (klās)
n.
A taxonomic category ranking below a phylum or division and above an order.

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Class

In the most general form, a class is a group of securities with similar features.

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With stocks, common and preferred shares are two different classes of stock.

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class

See stock class 1.
Option contracts of the same type (put or call) and style (American or European) on the same security and expiring on the same expiration date.

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Main Entry: class
Function: noun
: a group of persons or things having characteristics in common: as a : a group of persons who have some common relationship to a person making a will and are designated to receive a gift under the will but whose identities will not be determined until sometime in the future —see also class gift at GIFT b : a group of securities (as stocks or bonds) having similar distinguishing features (as voting rights or priority of redemption) c : a group whose members are represented in a class action d : PROTECTED CLASS e : a group of crimes forming a category distinguished by a common characteristic (as the use of violence or the requirement for a maximum penalty)class A felony>

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1. The prototype for an object in an object-oriented language; analogous to a derived type in a procedural language. A class may also be considered to be a set of objects which share a common structure and behaviour. The structure of a class is determined by the class variables which represent the state of an object of that class and the behaviour is given by a set of methods associated with the class.
Classes are related in a class hierarchy. One class may be a specialisation (a "subclass") of another (one of its "superclasses") or it may be composed of other classes or it may use other classes in a client-server relationship. A class may be an abstract class or a concrete class.
See also signature.
2. See type class.
3. One of three types of Internet addresses distinguished by their most significant bits.
3. A language developed by the Andrew Project. It was one of the first attempts to add object-oriented features to C.
(1995-05-01)

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Class\ (kl[.a]s), n. [F. classe, fr. L. classis class, collection, fleet; akin to Gr. klh^sis a calling, kalei^n to call, E. claim, haul.]

1. A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.

2. A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies.

3. A comprehensive division of animate or inanimate objects, grouped together on account of their common characteristics, in any classification in natural science, and subdivided into orders, families, tribes, genera, etc.

4. A set; a kind or description, species or variety.

She had lost one class energies. --Macaulay.

5. (Methodist Church) One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader.

Class of a curve (Math.), the kind of a curve as expressed by the number of tangents that can be drawn from any point to the curve. A circle is of the second class.

Class meeting (Methodist Church), a meeting of a class under the charge of a class leader, for counsel and relegious instruction.

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Class\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Classed; p. pr. & vb. n. Classing.] [Cf. F. classer. See Class, n.]

1. To arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class; as, to class words or passages.

Note: In scientific arrangement, to classify is used instead of to class. --Dana.

2. To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.

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Class

Class\, v. i. To grouped or classed.

The genus or famiky under which it classes. --Tatham.

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classical
classification
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CLASS
cross-chain LORAN atmospheric sounding system

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