[klas, klahs] 
| 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. |
| 26. | Informal. of high quality, integrity, status, or style: class players on a mediocre team. |
| 27. | to place or arrange in a class; classify: to class justice with wisdom. |
| 28. | to take or have a place in a particular class: those who class as believers. |
| 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. |
| class (klās) n.
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.] |
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.
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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In the most general form, a class is a group of securities with similar features.
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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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A taxonomic category ranking below a phylum or division and above an order.
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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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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.
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| CLASS cross-chain LORAN atmospheric sounding system |
