Class and Designation

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Class noun - One of the segments of society into which people are grouped.

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Designation is a synonym for class in kind topic. In some cases you can use "Designation" instead a noun "Class", when it comes to topics like name.

Designation noun - A word or combination of words by which a person or thing is regularly known.

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Class is a synonym for designation in name topic. Sometimes you can use "Class" instead a noun "Designation".

old	old class	old designation
full	full class	full designation
special	special class	special designation
similar	similar class	similar designation
Other adjectives: separate, original, proper, chosen, heavy, popular, actual, real, new, unique, political, official, basic, last, different, previous.

The Soviet designation for the Kirov class was "Heavy Missile Cruiser" so CBGN is actually an accurate designation for these ships.

Source: Useful Notes / Types of Naval Ships
This is quite common among a certain class of Transformer names, as those Transformer names cannot be trademarked by the maker of Transformers, Hasbro, so Hasbro adds the faction designation, in this case Autobot or Decepticon, to the name of that Transformer, so it is trademarkable.

Source: Redundancy / Toys
The third were considered "class enemies", which was a very bad designation to have in the USSR.

Source: Useful Notes / History of the USSR

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