Definitions for classical
ˈklæs ɪ kəlclas·si·cal

Princeton's WordNet(2.00 / 4 votes)Rate this definition:

1. classical music, classical, serious music(adj)

   traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste

2. classical, classic(adj)

   of or relating to the most highly developed stage of an earlier civilisation and its culture

   "classic Cinese pottery"

3. authoritative, classical, classic, definitive(adj)

   of recognized authority or excellence

   "the definitive work on Greece"; "classical methods of navigation"

4. classical(adj)

   of or relating to the study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome

   " a classical scholar"

5. classical(adj)

   (language) having the form used by ancient standard authors

   "classical Greek

6. classical, classic, Greco-Roman, Graeco-Roman, Hellenic(adj)

   of or pertaining to or characteristic of the ancient Greek and Roman cultures

   "classical mythology"; "classical

Wiktionary(1.67 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. classical(Adjective)

   Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.

   Etymology: From classic, from Latin classicus (of the first class).

2. classical(Adjective)

   Of or pertaining to established principles in a discipline.

   Etymology: From classic, from Latin classicus (of the first class).

3. classical(Adjective)

   Describing European music and musicians of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

   Etymology: From classic, from Latin classicus (of the first class).

4. classical(Adjective)

   Describing serious music (rather than pop, jazz, blues etc), especially when played using instruments of the orchestra.

   Etymology: From classic, from Latin classicus (of the first class).

5. classical(Adjective)

   Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.

   Etymology: From classic, from Latin classicus (of the first class).

6. classical(Adjective)

   Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined; as, a classical style.

   Etymology: From classic, from Latin classicus (of the first class).

Webster Dictionary(2.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Classical(noun)

   of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art

   Etymology: [L. classicus relating to the classes of the Roman people, and especially to the frist class; hence, of the first rank, superior, from classis class: cf. F. classique. See Class, n.]

2. Classical(noun)

   of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, esp. to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds

   Etymology: [L. classicus relating to the classes of the Roman people, and especially to the frist class; hence, of the first rank, superior, from classis class: cf. F. classique. See Class, n.]

3. Classical(noun)

   conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined; as, a classical style

   Etymology: [L. classicus relating to the classes of the Roman people, and especially to the frist class; hence, of the first rank, superior, from classis class: cf. F. classique. See Class, n.]

British National Corpus

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   Rank popularity for the word 'classical' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2987

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   Rank popularity for the word 'classical' in Adjectives Frequency: #412

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   The numerical value of classical in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of classical in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of classical in a Sentence

1. Stevie Nicks:

   It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.

2. William Schaffner:

   Ferrets are classical animals in which to study influenza -- it's been done for decades, if scientists were looking for an animal model, they would reach for the ferrets first.

3. Marco Rubio:

   I primarily like classical music, particularly Baroque music.

4. Olivier Camu:

   They realise, together with the modern classical collectors, that surrealism is still not that expensive, it's been undervalued for long and still is. Now that's gradually, slowly coming up, and together with 15 years of surrealist sales and new records...the sale is crystallising that interest.

5. Reza Sanaye:

   Basics of Macro-systems' Behavior Prediction 1 .The Macro-systems with their sometimes stochastic behavior may be (good) indicators of the dispersal of information from a holistic standpoint as well as [to be discussed later on] from a regionally molecular anisotropic zone. 2. The data scattering as for systems with quasi-vector behavior on liquids, on gases, and amongst solids, when observed from an epi-phenomenological perspective versus a phenomenological one, can show that a number of classical views on mechanistic behavior of Macro-systems may be substituted with some “machinic” view.¬ 3. The abandonment of the purely mechanistic view of interfacial forces and the adoption of thermodynamic and probabilistic concepts such as free energy and entropy have been two of the most important steps towards getting out of the worn-out mechanistic notions into more abstract conceptualization of information dispersal, working instead of causality. 4. Comparison also has to be made between hermeneutics of the notion of entropic forces within and without the framework of established thermodynamics. The very word “force” is itself a bit too collocated with entropy already. What we are after is to make it next of kin to ideas of data, information, topology of data, and mereology of stochasticity. 5. The physico-chemical potentiality inside a variety of equilibrium states can be used as a platform for anisotropic configurations whereby not only the entropy of confinement, but also the entropy of dispersal find their true meaning. 6. Within contexts of classical accumulation and energy-growth models, the verifiability of any anisotropic reversal is also demonstrable, if not by means of a set of axioms, at least by multiplicities of interfacial behavior in which experimental data find their mereotopological ratios one in the neighborhood of the other (considering first, for the sake of simplicity, our state spaces to be of metric nature). 7. Thus, there remains the reciprocity of interfacial tensions calculations where surface tension gives rise to internal polarization of those data systems by which we should like to derive either axiomatic or multiple manifoldic regionalization of PREDICTION. 8. This, with a number of Chaotic and Strange-Attractors modifications, can potentially be applied even to the whole matrix of the Universe. 9. Most of the literature on systems (information) entropy regard mesoscopic level as THE one with highest aptitude for (physicalistic) data analysis. However, there are clues to indicate that some of the main streams of structuration and dynamics are EITHER in common amongst microscopic, mesoscopic, and macroscopic systems OR holistic patterns of the said structurations and dynamics can be derived one from the other two. For example, we shall show later—in the course of the unfolding of present notions—that density functional theory (DFT) which has become the physicists’ methodology for describing solids’ electronic structure, can also be extended to other methods or systems. Few-atom systems can implicate the already explicated order of, say, biomolecules if rigorous analyses are carried out over the transition phases (translational data mappings). 10. The level of likelihood of information dispersal in any nano- and pico-systems with/without (full) attachment to and/or dependence upon chemical energy exchange, relates to dynamics of differentials of those multiplicities of tubing interconnector manifolds which potentially have the capacity to harness thermal energy. This spells that consumption of chemical energy does not necessarily always act against the infusion of energy. Here, delineation has to be made over the minutiae of the differences between Micro- and Macro-systems. Any movement of lines of demarcation throughout the said systems over the issue of (non-)interdependency of data mereotopology on chemical energy exchange, may be predicted if classical nucleation and growth theories give their place to an even more rigorous science of Differences. Repetition of (observation) of such Differences makes it possible to see through some of the most “macro” levels of systematicity [we have already run some simulations of micro-spaces’ state mappings for purposes of clarifying how many of the plasma macro jet streams inside stars or in the inter-galaxial space move. Even magneticity has turned out, with all due caution, to be comparable]. The above-said Differences actually refer to potentialities within lines of thermodynamic exchanges based upon anisotropy of information. Such exchanges nominate themselves as MO exchanges when “micro” but as some the most specific gravito-convectional currents in usages for astrology, earth science, and ecology. Thence, the science will be brought out of prognosing the detailed balance of mesoscopic (ir-)reversibility in terms of data neighborhoods connectivity. On any differentiable manifold with its own ring of universal differentiable functions, we may determine to have the “installing” of modules of Kähler spaces where demarcation could be represented by: d(a+b)=da+db, d(ab)=adb+bda, and: dλ=0(a,b∈A,λ∈k)d(a+b)=da+db,d(ab)=adb+bda,dλ=0(a,b∈A,λ∈k) Where any one module has the formalism: dbdb (b∈Ab∈A). All these having been said, again we have the problematics of still remaining within the realm of classic calculus. It is likely that for Macrosystems we may decide not to apply the classical version.

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