One session of formal instruction in which one or more teachers instruct a group on some subject. The class may be one of a course of classes, or a single special session.
A sociological concept used to differentiate between social groups (e.g., "upper class," "middle class," and "working class") stratified by differing amounts of wealth, prestige, and power.
A group of items that have the same icon, attributes, and behavior. Classes are organized into a hierarchy, in which each class inherits the attributes of its superior class, but may have additional attributes of its own.
A group of students enrolled in a subject for a specific session or year.
A category of classification (taxon); a subdivision of subphylum. The classes in the Subphylum Vertebrata are: Pisces (Fishes), Amphibia, Reptilia, Avis (Birds) and Mammalia.
Symmetry operations which are of the same type and can be interconverted by a symmetry operation of the point group are in the same class.
Level of taxonomy above Order and below Phylum. Similar orders are placed within the same class. All birds are in the Class Aves.
A group of functions and variables with the same prefix in their names, used to provide an interface to an internal or external Hyperbole abstraction.
A group of plants or animals below a phylum and above an order.
A subdivision of a phylum containing a group of related orders.
For hardware, the manner in which devices and buses are grouped for purposes of installing and managing device drivers and allocating resources. The hardware tree is organized by device class, and the operating system uses class installers to install drivers for all hardware classes.
Taxonomic group consisting of related orders. Reptiles are in the class Reptilia.
A taxonomic grouping including several related orders. This category is below phylum and above order. Humans are in the class Mammalia.
In taxonomy, a category just beneath the phylum and above the order; a group of related, similar orders.
The total number of observations made upon a particular variable may be grouped into classes according to convenient divisions of the variable range in order to make subsequent analysis less laborious or for other reasons. A group so determined is called a class. The variable values which determine the upper and lower limits of a class are called class boundaries; the interval between them is the class interval; and the frequency falling into the class, the class frequency.
Groups into which trains are divided--usually from two to four, depending on the railroad.
a grouping of similar orders.
in the animal kingdom, a division lower than a phylum and higher than an order, e.g., the Class Hexapoda or Insecta
An organising mechanism used for grouping lessons and/or students and teachers.
A group of people, animals or things that are similar in some way. Mammals are a class of vertebrates that have similar characteristics.
a division of the animal kingdom lower than a Phylum and higher than an Order. For example, the "Class Insecta" is a division of the Phylum Arthopoda.
As used with respect to the certification of aircraft, means a broad grouping of aircraft having similar characteristics of propulsion, flight, or landing. Examples include airplane, rotorcraft, glider, balloon, landplane, and seaplane.
Group of people who have the same function, interest or condition in the hierarchy of a society divided into classes.
taxonomic level in the Linnaean sequence that is above order but below phylum. One or more orders are included in a class, and one or more classes in a phylum or division eg Mammalia (mammals) and Aves (birds).
A group of positions sufficiently similar as to duties performed, scope of discretion and responsibility, minimum requirements of training, experience or skill, and such other characteristics that the same title, the same tests of fitness, and the same schedule of compensation have been or may be applied to each position in the group. [See [ KRS 18A.005 (6)] (PDF - 12.3 KB).
A logical grouping of traffic flows that share the same characteristics — a specific application, protocol, address, or set of addresses. Also known as traffic class.
a group of Hollands that fall into the same gender, pattern and age group. Solid Senior Bucks and Broken Junior Does are two classes. There are eight classes of Holland Lops.
a method by which pipe is grouped according to the working pressure at which it can be used. Class 160 pipe can be used where pressures don't exceed 160 PSI or 11.3 pressure bars.
The third group that scientists classify living things into. Each phylum is split into classes. Example: The Mammal Class is in the Chordate Phylum.
(klas) In the scientific system of classification (taxonomy), class is the division between phylum and order.
Refers to the group(s) of pitchers (usually 6-12 contestants/class) within a particular Division.
a taxonomic group subordinate to phylum; group of similar orders
a division or group within a Phylum
The relative location of a person or group within a larger society, based on wealth, power, prestige, or other valued resources.
A group of related or similar organisms.
Any subdivision of a product based on physical characteristics that differentiate between major groups of the same kind or type. For example, small, medium, large, extra large, and jumbo are different classes of shell eggs.
a ranked group within a stratified society characterized by achieved status and considerable social mobility.
a group of positions or jobs similar enough with respect to duties and responsibilities so that the same title and code may be used for all positions in the group. These positions/jobs are treated alike for pay, classification, bargaining unit, recruitment and other personnel/management purposes.
The highest term within a Hierarchy. These terms are used merely as grouping terms to aid retrieval and as such are Non-Index Terms.
A group of students, usually taught by a single teacher, in a school
A class is a group of insureds having similar characteristics and exposure to a peril, and who are eligible for comparable insurance rates. For example, non-smokers as a group generally pay lower rates for life insurance than do tobacco users.
A group of individuals that possess the same characteristics. Also refers to structures combined ratio. The sum of an expense ratio and a loss ratio.
Noun: (1) A group of objects exhibiting one or more common characteristics, identified by specific notation. See also Entry. (2) One of the ten major groups of the DDC numbered 0–9. See also Main class. (3) A subdivision of the DDC of any degree of specificity. See also Subdivision. Verb: To assign a class number to an individual work. See also Classify.
A group of chickens that has been developed in a particular region of the world.
A class defines a logically related set of properties that a specific group of entities all share. That sharing also makes the group of entities unique compared to other entities. Classes are about set membership based upon sets of shared properties. (See category on what OO is all about.)
a major taxonomic rank, between order and division.
a grouping of horse show involving horses with riders or shown at hand that perform according to the class specifications as described in the rulebook of that show
in taxonomy, a group of orders with shared characteristics. For example, Mammals are a class of vertebrates which are warm-blooded and give birth to live young which they breast-feed. This includes humans, cows, whales and cats.
A group of positions with the same descriptive title having similar duties and responsibilities and requiring similar qualifications and which can be distinguished from other groups of positions. There may be only one position in a particular class or classification.
Utilized in the United Nations Standard Products and Services Code® (UNSPSC®) as a logical grouping of commodities sharing similar essential properties or characteristics.
A sub type of Grouping with one normal Group: all the Learners in a lesson, plus a special Group with all the Teachers in the Lesson
A category of taxonomic classification between order and phylum, a class comprises members of similar orders. See taxon.
The logical group of the file. A value must be specified because it cannot be computed. The value is ClassName [ ClassName].
Position in the economy, in the distribution of wealth and resources, income and poverty; position in the distribution of power and authority in the workforce.
A number of individuals (persons or things) possessing common attributes that are grouped together under a general or “class” name .
In biology, a category that's part of the scientific system for grouping together related plants, animals and other organisms (kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species). Class is the category that ranks below a phylum and above an order.
A group of businesses that have common or similar exposures and are grouped together for rating purposes.
In systematics, the category of plants and animals below a phylum comprising several orders [LCOTE
The third-largest major, or obligatory, taxonomic classification rank, smaller than phylum but larger than order.
A major category in biological taxonomy ranking above the order and below phylum or division (e.g., Mammalia or mammals).
Class (CLS) was a notorious and prolific warez group that existed between January 1 1997 and January 9 2004. The group was the repeated target of federal raids such as Operation Fastlink. They specialized in cracked games, and sometimes had elaborate art in the cracktro or release (ie. music, 3D animation, logo designs, et cetera).
Class (locomotive) refers to a group of locomotives built to a common design for a single railroad. It is analogous to ship class.
