meaning of class

1. To arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class; as, to class words or passages.
2. To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
3. To grouped or classed.
4. A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.
5. A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies.
6. 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.
7. A set; a kind or description, species or variety.
8. One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader.
9. 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.
10. education imparted in a series of lessons or class meetings; "he took a course in basket weaving"; "flirting is not unknown in college ">classes"

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