1 relating to the less expensive way of travelling in a train, aircraft, etc., that most people use:
2 a degree from a university in the UK and some other countries that is a good degree but not the best possible
3 If you travel second class in a train, aircraft, etc., you use the less expensive type of ticket that most people use:
4 the seats on a plane or in a train that are less good and less expensive than first class:
5 considered to be less important or of lower quality than others:
6 relating to the normal level of service offered, especially on a train:
She was sitting in one of the second-class compartments.
7 in the UK, relating to a less expensive service for sending mail which is slower than first-class:
8 in the US, relating to the mail service used for sending magazines and newspapers
9 used to describe a degree from a UK university that is good but not of the highest possible standard:
The successful candidate must have a first or second class honours degree.
10 considered less important or of a lower quality than something or someone else:
12 using the slower, less expensive service for sending mail:
13 the normal seats, service, etc., especially on a train:
The second class of non-polyhedral cones we consider gives rise to semidefinite programming problems.
So instead of winning an appointment as technical expert second class, for which he had applied, he was named to third class.
A second class of questions addresses the physical properties and structure of plasma filaments.
A second class is transformed to a solitary-wave solution where the spectrum at short wavelengths is more rapidly damped than at long wavelengths.
Seven patients showed functional capacity graded in the second class.
A second class of stable defects comprises space-time grain boundaries.
If it leaves an n-pcell of the second class, the values are, respectively, 8 3 m and 8m.
In the second class there is one natural starting state given (the empty colouring).