Module vs. Class — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Module and Class
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Module
A standardized, often interchangeable component of a system or construction that is designed for easy assembly or flexible use
A sofa consisting of two end modules.
Class
A set, collection, group, or configuration containing members regarded as having certain attributes or traits in common; a kind or category.
Module
(Architecture) A length used as a unit of measurement or as a standard for determining the proportions of a building.
Class
A grade of mail
A package sent third class.
Module
(Electronics) A self-contained assembly of electronic components and circuitry, such as a stage in a computer, that is installed as a unit.
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Class
A quality of accommodation on public transport
Tourist class.
Module
(Computers) A portion of a program that carries out a specific function and may be used alone or combined with other modules of the same program.
Class
A social stratum whose members share certain economic, social, or cultural characteristics
The lower-income classes.
Module
A self-contained unit of a spacecraft that performs a specific task or class of tasks in support of the major function of the craft.
Class
Social rank or caste, especially high rank.
Module
A unit of education or instruction with a relatively low student-to-teacher ratio, in which a single topic or a small section of a broad topic is studied for a given period of time.
Class
(Informal)Elegance of style, taste, and manner
An actor with class.
Module
(Mathematics) An algebraic system that resembles a vector space, except that the set of scalars forms a ring and not necessarily a field.
Class
A group of students who are taught together, usually at a regularly scheduled time and in the same subject.
Module
(Biology) A unit of modular growth, such as a coral polyp.
Class
The period during which such a group meets
Had to stay after class.
Module
(Archaic) A standard or unit of measurement.
Class
The subject material taught to or studied by such a group
Found the math class challenging.
Module
A self-contained component of a system, often interchangeable, which has a well-defined interface to the other components.
Class
A group of students or alumni who have the same year of graduation.
Module
(architecture) A standard unit of measure used for determining the proportions of a building.
Class
(Biology)A taxonomic category ranking below a phylum or division and above an order.
Module
(programming) A section of a program; a subroutine or group of subroutines.
Class
(Statistics)An interval in a frequency distribution.
Module
A unit of education covering a single topic.
Which modules are you studying next year?
Class
(Linguistics)A group of words belonging to the same grammatical category that share a particular set of morphological properties, such as a set of inflections.
Module
A pre-prepared adventure scenario with related materials for a role-playing game.
Class
(Mathematics)A collection of sets whose members share a specified property.
Module
An abelian group equipped with the operation of multiplication by an element of a ring (or another of certain algebraic objects), representing a generalisation of the concept of vector space with scalar multiplication.
Class
To arrange, group, or rate according to qualities or characteristics; assign to a class; classify.
Module
A fractal element.
Class
(countable) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
The new Ford Fiesta is set to be best in the 'small family' class.
That is one class-A heifer you got there, sonny.
Often used to imply membership of a large class.
This word has a whole class of metaphoric extensions.
Module
(music) A file containing a music sequence that can be played in a tracker (called also mod or music module).
Class
A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes: upper class, middle class and working class.
Module
(hydraulics) A contrivance for regulating the supply of water from an irrigation channel.
Class
(uncountable) The division of society into classes.
Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England.
Module
(astronautics) An independent self-contained unit of a spacecraft.
Class
(uncountable) Admirable behavior; elegance.
Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class.
Module
A model or measure.
Class
A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
The class was noisy, but the teacher was able to get their attention with a story.
Module
The size of some one part, as the diameter of semi-diameter of the base of a shaft, taken as a unit of measure by which the proportions of the other parts of the composition are regulated. Generally, for columns, the semi-diameter is taken, and divided into a certain number of parts, called minutes (see Minute), though often the diameter is taken, and any dimension is said to be so many modules and minutes in height, breadth, or projection.
Class
A series of lessons covering a single subject.
I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot.
Module
To model; also, to modulate.
Class
(countable) A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.
The class of 1982 was particularly noteworthy.
Module
One of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind
Class
(countable) A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
I used to fly business class, but now my company can only afford economy.
Module
Detachable compartment of a spacecraft
Class
A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.
Magnolias belong to the class Magnoliopsida.
Module
Computer circuit consisting of an assembly of electronic components (as of computer hardware)
Class
Best of its kind.
It is the class of Italian bottled waters.
Module
A self-contained component (unit or item) that is used in combination with other components
Class
(statistics) A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.
Class
(set theory) A collection of sets definable by a shared property.
The class of all sets is not a set.
Every set is a class, but classes are not generally sets. A class that is not a set is called a proper class.
Class
(military) A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.
Class
A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set in terms of its common properties, functions, etc.
An abstract base class
Class
One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.
Class
(transitive) To assign to a class; to classify.
I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period.
Class
(intransitive) To be grouped or classed.
Class
(transitive) To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
Class
Great; fabulous
Class
A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.
Class
A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies.
Class
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.
Class
A set; a kind or description, species or variety.
She had lost one class energies.
Class
One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader.
Class
One session of formal instruction in which one or more teachers instruct a group on some subject. The class may be one of a course of classes, or a single special session.
Class
A high degree of elegance, in dress or behavior; the quality of bearing oneself with dignity, grace, and social adeptness.
Class
To arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class; as, to class words or passages.
Class
To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
Class
To be grouped or classed.
The genus or family under which it classes.
Class
Exhibiting refinement and high character; as, a class act. Opposite of low-class
Class
People having the same social or economic status;
The working class
An emerging professional class
Class
A body of students who are taught together;
Early morning classes are always sleepy
Class
Education imparted in a series of lessons or class meetings;
He took a course in basket weaving
Flirting is not unknown in college classes
Class
A collection of things sharing a common attribute;
There are two classes of detergents
Class
A body of students who graduate together;
The class of '97
She was in my year at Hoehandle High
Class
A league ranked by quality;
He played baseball in class D for two years
Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA
Class
Elegance in dress or behavior;
She has a lot of class
Class
(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
Class
Arrange or order by classes or categories;
How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?
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