Lexic.us

Definition of Superclass

1. Noun. (biology) a taxonomic class below a phylum and above a class.

Definition of Superclass

1. Noun. (taxonomy) A taxon ranking below a phylum and above a class. ¹

2. Noun. (computing object-oriented programming) A high-level class that passes attributes and methods down the hierarchy to subclasses. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) (computing object-oriented programming) To create a superclass of. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Superclass

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Superclass

Literary usage of Superclass

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Inform Designer's Manual by Graham Nelson (2001)
"§5.10 Passing messages up to the superclass A It fairly often happens that an instance of ... (The word "superclass", in this context, is borrowed from the ..."

2. Concrete Abstractions: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Scheme by Max Hailperin, Barbara Kaiser, Karl Knight (1999)
"0..1 superclass subclasses {super/subclass associations form a tree with object-class as the root—the only class with no superclass} The diagram shows a new ..."

3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"Thus, birds and reptiles are classes constituting a superclass, Sauropsida, contrasting with Mammalia, as a superclass represented by the mammals only, ..."

4. The New Haven Mathematical Colloquium: Lectures Delivered Before Members of by Eliakim Hastings Moore, Ernest Julius Wilczynski, Max Mason (1910)
"... the class of all elements (in notation : pm) developed in stage m, the least common superclass of the classes of stage m, and the class ^ : <$' =3 [j9A] ..."

5. Guidelines for the Evaluation of X.500 Directory Products by John Tebbutt (1996)
"This set of 'superclasses, from the entry up to top, is know as the object class' superclass chain. Returning to our example, an entry of class Dave's Used ..."

6. Mastering C++ by K. R. Venugopal, Rajkumar Buyya, T. Ravishankar, Shaduli Vanimal (muhammad Ali Shaduli) (1997)
"Methods declared in a superclass are also inherited. If a method can be overridden by the subclass, then it must be declared virtual in its first appearance ..."

7. SAS 9.1.3 Open Metadata Interface: Reference by SAS Publishing (COR), SAS Institute (2005)
"To list instances of all subtypes in the Repository superclass: n specify the Repository supertype in the Type parameter n set the ..."

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