AGE CLASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does age class mean? 

• AGE CLASS (noun)
  The noun AGE CLASS has 1 sense:

1. people in the same age range

  Familiarity information: AGE CLASS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGE CLASS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

People in the same age range

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("age class" is a kind of...):

class; social class; socio-economic class; stratum (people having the same social, economic, or educational status)

 Context examples 

In both forest age classes, a net gain of 8.48 trillion kilograms of carbon is stored over 40 years.

(Natural regeneration of tropical forests helps global climate mitigation and forest restoration, NSF)

The studies aimed to model the areas covered by regrowth forests across the lowlands of the Latin American Tropics in two age classes; to project potential above-ground carbon storage in these young forests over four decades; and to illustrate alternative scenarios for carbon storage where 0-80 percent of these forests are allowed to regenerate.

(Natural regeneration of tropical forests helps global climate mitigation and forest restoration, NSF)