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Superclass

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A taxonomic category of related organisms ranking below a phylum and above a class.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A taxon ranking below a phylum and above a class.

n. A high-level class that passes attributes and methods down the hierarchy to subclasses.

v. (computing, object-oriented programming) To create a superclass of.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A group embracing two or more classes, or a single class contrasting with such a combination.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. (biology) a taxonomic class below a phylum and above a class

Word Usage

"Since all our models in - herit from ActiveRecord:: Base, so far we have always relied on the initialization func - tion in the parent class (also called the superclass)."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

taxonomic category taxonomic group taxon

Cross Reference

abstract type interface base class

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