Class and Pattern

noun

• A collection of things sharing a common attribute.
  • usage: "there are two classes of detergents"
  • synonyms: category, family
• A body of students who are taught together.
  • usage: "early morning classes are always sleepy"
  • synonyms: form, grade, course
• People having the same social, economic, or educational status.
  • usage: "the working class"; "an emerging professional class"
  • synonyms: stratum, social class, socio-economic class
• Education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings.
  • usage: "he took a course in basket weaving"; "flirting is not unknown in college classes"
  • synonyms: course, course of study, course of instruction
• A league ranked by quality.
  • usage: "he played baseball in class D for two years"; "Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA"
  • synonyms: division
• A body of students who graduate together.
  • usage: "the class of '97"; "she was in my year at Hoehandle High"
  • synonyms: year
• Biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders. (
• Elegance in dress or behavior.
  • usage: "she has a lot of class"

verb

• Arrange or order by classes or categories.
  • usage: "How would you classify these pottery shards-are they prehistoric"
  • synonyms: classify, sort, assort, sort out, separate

• (n.) 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.
• (n.) To arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class; as, to class words or passages.
• (n.) A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.
• (n.) To divide into classes, as students; to form into or place in, a class or classes.
• (v.i.) To grouped or classed.
• (n.) A set; a kind or description, species or variety.
• (n.) A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing or pursuing the same studies.
• (n.) One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader.

In the case of derivative products, options of the same type-put or call-with the same underlying security. See: Series. In general, refers to a category of assets such as: domestic equity, fixed income, etc.

noun

• A perceptual structure.
  • usage: "the composition presents problems for students of musical form"; "a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them"
  • synonyms: form, shape
• A customary way of operation or behavior.
  • usage: "it is their practice to give annual raises"; "they changed their dietary pattern"
  • synonyms: practice
• A decorative or artistic work.
  • usage: "the coach had a design on the doors"
  • synonyms: design, figure
• Something regarded as a normative example.
  • usage: "the convention of not naming the main character"; "violence is the rule not the exception"; "his formula for impressing visitors"
  • synonyms: convention, normal, rule, formula
• A model considered worthy of imitation.
  • usage: "the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics"
• Something intended as a guide for making something else.
  • usage: "a blueprint for a house"; "a pattern for a skirt"
  • synonyms: blueprint, design
• The path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport.
  • usage: "the traffic patterns around O'Hare are very crowded"; "they stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted"
  • synonyms: traffic pattern, approach pattern
• Graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle.
  • synonyms: radiation pattern, radiation diagram

verb

• Plan or create according to a model or models.
  • synonyms: model
• Form a pattern.
  • usage: "These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before"

• (n.) A diagram showing the distribution of the pellets of a shotgun on a vertical target perpendicular to the plane of fire.
• (n.) Figure or style of decoration; design; as, wall paper of a beautiful pattern.
• (n.) Anything cut or formed to serve as a guide to cutting or forming objects; as, a dressmaker's pattern.
• (v.t.) To serve as an example for; also, to parallel.
• (n.) Stuff sufficient for a garment; as, a dress pattern.
• (n.) A full-sized model around which a mold of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. It is usually made of wood and in several parts, so as to be removed from the mold without injuring it.
• (n.) A part showing the figure or quality of the whole; a specimen; a sample; an example; an instance.
• (v.t.) To make or design (anything) by, from or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.
• (n.) Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.
• (n.) Something made after a model; a copy.

Pattern is a technical chart formation used to make market predictions by following the price movements of securities.