Subclass may refer to: * Subclass (taxonomy), a taxonomic rank below "class" *

Subclass (computer science) In object-oriented programming, inheritance is the mechanism of basing an object or class upon another object ( prototype-based inheritance) or class ( class-based inheritance), retaining similar implementation. Also defined as deriving new clas ...

Subclass (set theory) In set theory and its applications throughout mathematics, a subclass is a class contained in some other class in the same way that a subset is a set contained in some other set. That is, given classes ''A'' and ''B'', ''A'' is a subclass of ''B ...

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