Classful

Quick meaning: Classful is an adjective meaning (computing, Internet) Of or relating to a network-addressing architecture that divides the address space into a number of classes.

Meaning

(computing, Internet) Of or relating to a network-addressing architecture that divides the address space into a number of classes.

More Meanings

1. (computing) Of or relating to the presence and employment of classes in a programming language.
2. An amount that fills a class.

Example Sentences

They were real aids to memory, and amused whole classesful at a time.

Classful routing protocols do not carry subnet masks; classless routing protocols do.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• classfuls
• classesful

Antonyms for classful

Common opposites include classless.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include classificational, classist, multiclass, classificatory, classemic, classical.

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