Open class may refer to:
- Open Class (Track and Field), an event classification
- Open class (linguistics), a word class readily accepting new items
- Open class (horse racing), a standardbred racing event open to all comers
- FAI Open Class glider competition class with unlimited wingspan
- IBM Open Class (IOC), a C++ class library
- Open class system, a state of society
Famous quotes containing the words open and/or class:
“I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience—it also marks the time, which is four o’clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.”
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)
“What exacerbates the strain in the working class is the absence of money to pay for services they need, economic insecurity, poor daycare, and lack of dignity and boredom in each partner’s job. What exacerbates it in upper-middle class is the instability of paid help and the enormous demands of the career system in which both partners become willing believers. But the tug between traditional and egalitarian models of marriage runs from top to bottom of the class ladder.”
—Arlie Hochschild (20th century)