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, an object class derived from another class (its superclass) from which it inherits a base set of properties and methods.
  • 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

Etymologies

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sub- +‎ class

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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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