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classful en · ADJ · etymology 1

Etymology

From class + -ful.

Meanings

1. (Internet, not-comparable) Of or relating to a network-addressing architecture that divides the address space into a number of classes.
   • Classful routing protocols do not carry subnet masks; classless routing protocols do. 2002, Ravi Malhotra, IP Routing, page 101:
2. (not-comparable) Of or relating to the presence and employment of classes in a programming language.

Antonyms

classless

Coordinates

objectful

classful en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From class + -ful.

Meanings

1. An amount that fills a class.
   • There is nothing sadder, to me, in the situation of young American writers, as the colleges turn them out by the creative-writing classfuls, than the lack of a significantly paying market for short stories. 2013, John Updike, More Matter: Essays And Criticism:
   • Furthermore, the deadly elasticity of heterosexist presumption means that, like Wendy in Peter Pan, people find new walls springing up around them even as they drowse: every encounter with a new classful of students, to say nothing of a new boss, social worker, loan officer, landlord, doctor, erects new closets whose fraught and characteristic laws of optics and physics exact from at least gay people new surveys, new calculations, new draughts and requistitions of secrecy or disclosure. 2008, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet, page 68:
   • They were real aids to memory, and amused whole classesful at a time. 1922, C. C. Martindale, “At St. Mary’s Hall, September 1904—September 1907”, in Charles Dominic Plater S.J., London: Harding & More Ltd; The Ambrosden Press, […], page 87:

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