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  Class \Class\ (kl[.a]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.
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     2. A number of students in a school or college, of the same
        standing, or pursuing the same studies.
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     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.
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     4. A set; a kind or description, species or variety.
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              She had lost one class energies.      --Macaulay.
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     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.
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     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.
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  Class \Class\ (kl[.a]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.