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su·per·class

 (so͞o′pər-klăs′)
n.
A taxonomic category of related organisms ranking below a phylum or its subdivisions and above a class.
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superclass

(ˈsuːpəˌklɑːs)
n
(Biology) a taxonomic group that is a subdivision of a subphylum
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su•per•class

(ˈsu pərˌklæs, -ˌklɑs)

n. Biol.
1. a category of related classes within a phylum or subphylum.
2. a subphylum.
[1890–95]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.superclass - (biology) a taxonomic class below a phylum and above a class
biological science, biology - the science that studies living organisms
taxon, taxonomic category, taxonomic group - animal or plant group having natural relations
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Well-known superclasses of balanced graphs are perfect graphs and hereditary clique-Helly graphs.
By making use of the presented object-oriented data modeling possibilities it will be shown how a change comparison of the different layers can be improved, especially when taking into account changes between subclasses and superclasses and aggregating changes to composite objects in an integrated framework.
The anti-involution of G induces an action of G on the Lie algebra of U, which we use to construct the superclasses and supercharacters.
Another example is the HDP-RBM system of Tenenbaum and Salaktudinov [29], where Boltzmann machines are combined with a hierarchical Bayesian model with Dirichlet priors that can discover classes and superclasses, i.e., abstract things, in the data.
Marberg, "Superclasses and supercharacters of normal pattern subgroups of the unipotent upper triangular matrix group," Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics, vol.
If there was no result, a first kind of semantic matching is done: for each output concept in the given profile, we take each subclass in its ontology in increasing order of the semantic distance, as defined in (Pukkasenung et al., 2010); we compute the wordID for the current subclass and look it up in the corresponding index; thus, we try to find the best matches for all outputs according to the semantic distance; if at least one output can't be matched, the algorithm moves to step 3; then we do the same for inputs, but now we take the superclasses of each given input; if we have at least one input matched, we find the matches common for the outputs and the inputs; finally, we check which of these also match the preconditions and effects of the given profile, if they exist;
He urged us to trust children 'without their stabilisers, to let them go, and with examples of educational initiatives that are doing just that, such as 'superclasses' of 100+ students on crash courses learning subjects up to GCSE level in one month, he was able to show how they can astonish us with their levels of achievement.
Given a class r, the sufficient knowledge of this class consists of all its superclasses, either in the same ontology, or in ontologies reached by r or its superclasses via mappings.
Appended are: (1) Extract from the SFC list of subject superclasses; (2) Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework; (3) Examples from the range of programmes offered by two colleges; (4) Bibliography; (5) Focus group questions; (6) Glossary; and (7) Acknowledgements.