class : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: class	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for class
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
class n a collection of things sharing a common attribute; "there are two classes of detergents" Synonym(s): class, category, family a body of students who are taught together; "early morning classes are always sleepy" Synonym(s): class, form, grade, course people having the same social, economic, or educational status; "the working class"; "an emerging professional class" Synonym(s): class, stratum, social class, socio-economic class education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings; "he took a course in basket weaving"; "flirting is not unknown in college classes" Synonym(s): course, course of study, course of instruction, class a league ranked by quality; "he played baseball in class D for two years"; "Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA" Synonym(s): class, division a body of students who graduate together; "the class of '97"; "she was in my year at Hoehandle High" Synonym(s): class, year (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders elegance in dress or behavior; "she has a lot of class" v arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?" Synonym(s): classify, class, sort, assort, sort out, separate
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Class \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Class \Class\ (kl[adot]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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Class \Class\, v. i. To grouped or classed. The genus or famiky under which it classes. --Tatham.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
class 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)