Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (computing, Internet) Of or relating to a network-addressing architecture that divides the address space into a number of classes.
2. (computing) Of or relating to the presence and employment of classes in a programming language.
3. An amount that fills a class.

Example Sentences

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

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

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.

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.

Word Forms

• classfuls
• classesful

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Use classful when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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