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form class
noun
A collection of organisms that is given formal recognition at the rank of class with a taxonomic name, but which is known to be an artificial group rather than a natural one.
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Each form, whether it is simple or composite, belongs to a certain form class.
And so to the team of the first half of the season, based not on form, class or (worse still) statistics.
Lawyers suggested that adult dating and infidelity websites faced ruin if customers decided to form class action lawsuits following multiple hacks.
What Bloomfield had in mind as the criterion for form class membership (and therefore of syntactic equivalence) may best be expressed in terms of substitutability.
If attention is confined, for simplicity, to constructions composed of no more than two immediate constituents, it can be said that subordinating constructions are those in which only one immediate constituent is of the same form class as the whole construction, whereas coordinating constructions are those in which both constituents are of the same form class as the whole construction.
At the end of the spring term, teacher Philip Closier moved to Yorkshire, although he had temporarily taken on a IT theory 6th form class at Forest School in Winnersh, Berkshire.
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Evolution in general, not punctuated evolution in particular, is the reason species do not form classes.
Central to his theory of syntax were the notions of form classes and constituent structure.
The weekly Speed and Form classes through the Urban Athletics club also include sprinting.
The term concept formation describes how a person learns to form classes, whereas the term conceptual thinking refers to an individual's subjective manipulation of those abstract classes.
Bloomfield defined form classes, rather imprecisely, in terms of some common "recognizable phonetic or grammatical feature" shared by all the members.
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