classical
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- : of, relating to, or characteristic of Greek and Roman antiquity: classical literature; classical languages.
- : conforming to ancient Greek and Roman models in literature or art, or to later systems modeled upon them.
- : marked by classicism: classical simplicity.
- : Music. of, relating to, or constituting the formally and artistically more sophisticated and enduring types of music, as distinguished from popular and folk music and jazz. Classical music includes symphonies, operas, sonatas, song cycles, and lieder.of, pertaining to, characterized by, or adhering to the well-ordered, chiefly homophonic musical style of the latter half of the 18th and the early 19th centuries: Haydn and Mozart are classical composers.
- : Architecture. noting or pertaining to the architecture of ancient Greece and Rome, especially the religious and public architecture, characterized by the employment of orders.Compare order. noting or pertaining to any of several styles of architecture closely imitating the architecture of ancient Greece or Rome; neoclassic.noting or pertaining to architectural details or motifs adapted from ancient Greek or Roman models. simple, reposeful, well-proportioned, or symmetrical in a manner suggesting the architecture of ancient Greece and Rome.
- : pertaining to or designating the style of fine arts, especially painting and sculpture, developed in Greece during the 5th and 4th centuries b.c., chiefly characterized by balanced composition, the separation of figures from an architectural background, and the naturalistic rendering of anatomical details, spatial movement, and distribution of weight in a figure.Compare archaic, Hellenistic.
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Vaccines aren’t supposed to work like that, though, at least according to classical immunology.
A quantum Internet would be based on a network of quantum computers, a buzzy class of calculating machines that offers advantages over classical computers, like the one you’re reading this article on.
I’m not sure we’re going to see your classical second wave, like in 1918.
In a classical hard drive, for example, the data are stored in bits, 0s or 1s that are represented by magnetized regions consisting of many atoms.
For classical computers, correcting errors, if they do occur, is straightforward.
Stephanie Giorgio, a classical musician, credits The Class for helping her cope with anxiety, focus, fear, and self-doubt.
For Kirke it was being paid to pretend to play the oboe that heightened her affair with classical music.
Since filming the show, however, her relationship with classical music has obviously changed.
So she was an aficionado of classical music, for soundtracks or otherwise?
And it goes beyond getting my teeth drilled at the dentist office—my dentist really likes classical music.
This was a vast building of classical design, resembling a Grecian temple.