superclass

See also: super class

English

Alternative forms

• super class

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *úp

Proto-Indo-European *-er

Proto-Indo-European *upér

Proto-Italic *super

Latin super

Latin super-lbor.

English super-

Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁-der.

Proto-Italic *klāssis

Latin classisder.

Middle French classebor.

English class

English superclass

From super- + class.

Pronunciation

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Noun

superclass (plural superclasses)

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

   Synonyms: base class, parent class

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

Synonyms

• (general): superset

Antonyms

• subclass
• subset

Hypernyms

• class

Translations

class that passes attributes and methods

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 父類別 / 父类别 (fùlèibié)

• Czech: nadtřída f
• Dutch: superklasse f
• Finnish: yläluokka (fi)
• French: classe mère (fr) f
• German: Überklasse f
• Greek: υπερκλάση (el) f (yperklási)
• Japanese: スーパークラス (sūpākurasu)
• Russian: надкла́сс (ru) m (nadkláss), суперкла́сс (ru) m (superkláss), роди́тельский класс m (rodítelʹskij klass)
• Turkish: üstsınıf

Verb

superclass (third-person singular simple present superclasses, present participle superclassing, simple past and past participle superclassed)

1. (transitive, computing, object-oriented programming) To create a superclass of.
   • 2001, Stephen Teilhet, Subclassing and Hooking With Visual Basic, page 223:

     Applications incorporating superclassing "clean up" by calling UnregisterClass on all superclassed classes.

See also

• (computing): abstract type, base class, interface

References

• superclass on Wikipedia.Wikipedia