Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Biology A taxonomic category of related organisms ranking below a class and above an order.
- noun A subdivision of a set or class.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A prime subdivision of a class; in zoology and botany, a division or group of a grade between the class and the order; a superorder.
- noun In petrography, in the quantitative classification of igneous rocks (see
rock ), a division between class and order, based on the relative proportions of the two subgroups of the preponderant group of standard minerals. - To place in a sub-class or secondary division of its class.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of the natural groups, more important than an order, into which some classes are divided.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun taxonomy A rank directly below
class - noun computing In
object-oriented programming , anobject class derived from another class (itssuperclass ) from which itinherits a base set ofproperties andmethods . - verb transitive, computing In
object-oriented programming , to create a subclass of.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (biology) a taxonomic category below a class and above an order
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Examples
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If the title had been Planers, Reciprocating beds, the indication would be that the subclass was a part subclass to receive planer beds only.
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_Difficulty of entitling a subclass corresponding to every combination.
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Difficulty of entitling a subclass corresponding to every combination.
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ActionExtends creates an inheritance relationship between two classes, called the subclass and the superclass.
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Another special column is column 1, event subclass, which is shared by some of the events.
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I have a Control class ChildFoo defined as a subclass of control class
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The CR6261 antibody, however, was not effective for the H3 subclass, which is a common human influenza virus, because a sugar molecule blocks the epitope.
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ActionExtends offers the ability to create a relationship between two classes, called the subclass and the superclass.
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The CR6261 antibody, however, was not effective for the H3 subclass, which is a common human influenza virus, because a sugar molecule blocks the epitope.
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I have a Control class ChildFoo defined as a subclass of control class
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