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.
- To place in a sub-class or secondary division of its class.
- 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.
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.
The Classification of Patents United States Patent Office
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_Difficulty of entitling a subclass corresponding to every combination.
The Classification of Patents United States Patent Office
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Difficulty of entitling a subclass corresponding to every combination.
The Classification of Patents United States Patent Office
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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
MSDN Blogs jaimer 2009
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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.
GEN News Highlights 2009
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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.
GEN News Highlights 2009
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I have a Control class ChildFoo defined as a subclass of control class
MSDN Blogs 2009
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