subclass

English

Pronunciation

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Etymology

sub- +‎ class

Noun

subclass (plural subclasses)

1. (taxonomy) A rank directly below class
2. (computing) In object-oriented programming, an object class derived from another class (its superclass) from which it inherits a base set of properties and methods.

Antonyms

• superclass

Translations

taxonomy

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 亞綱 (cmn), 亚纲 (cmn) (yàgāng)

• Czech: podtřída (cs) f
• French: sous-classe (fr) f
• German: Unterklasse (de) f
• Irish: fo-aicme (ga) f

• Japanese: 亜綱 (ja) (あこう, akō), サブクラス (ja) (sabukurasu)
• Russian: подкласс (ru) (podkláss) m
• Telugu: ఉపతరగతి (te)
• Turkish: altsınıf (tr)
• Volapük: donaklad (vo)

computing

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 子類別 (cmn), 子类别 (cmn) (zǐlèibié)

• Czech: podtřída (cs) f
• French: classe fille (fr) f
• German: Kindklasse (de) f, Subklasse (de) f, Unterklasse (de) f

• Irish: fo-aicme (ga) f
• Japanese: サブクラス (ja) (sabukurasu)
• Russian: подкласс (ru) (podkláss) m, класс-наследник (ru) (klass-naslédnik) m
• Turkish: altsınıf (tr)

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• French: sous-classe (fr) f
• Icelandic: undirklasi m

• Irish: fo-rang (ga) m
• Lithuanian: poklasis

Verb

subclass (third-person singular simple present subclasses, present participle subclassing, simple past and past participle subclassed)

1. (transitive, computing) In object-oriented programming, to create a subclass of.

   I subclassed the Button class to create a more specialised FancyButton class for my user interface.