Superclass may refer to: * Superclass (book), a book about global governance by David Rothkopf and '' The Superclass List'' * Superclass (biology), a taxonomic rank intermediate between subphylum and class *

Superclass (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 ...

, a class from which other classes are derived

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