Class

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Class may refer to:

• Appliance classes, in the electric appliance manufacturing industry.
• Character class, in role-playing games, or other genres such as the FPS Team Fortress
• Class (biology), a rank used in taxonomy.
• Class (computer science), related to object-oriented programming.
• Class (education), a group of students attending a specific course or lesson, or short for a classroom.
• Class (film), a movie released in 1983.
• Class (philosophy), distinguishes between classes and types.
• Class (sailing), where boats of identical construction race against each other.
• Class (set theory), in mathematics.
• Class (warez), a defunct group in the warez scene.
• Classes of US Senators.
• Social class refers to the hierarchical distinctions between groups in societies or cultures, and is a fundamental concept in economics, sociology and other social sciences.
• The classification of United States railroads according to revenue, specifically:

Class I railroad

Class II railroad

Class III railroad

• Class (locomotive), a single design of a railroad locomotive as assigned by the railroad
• In a navy, a set of vessels that share essentially the same design. See ship class.
• The Class (TV Series), a CBS sitcom which began in fall 2006

Class is a synonym of:

• lesson, in education.

Class is also:

• A slang word in the UK, meaning "great" or "fabulous". Originating from Northern Ireland, this colloquial word is now used across most media and is gaining more widespread acceptance. For example: "this song is class".
• An (X)HTML language attribute.