noun Download 🔗Share A high-level class that passes attributes and methods down the hierarchy to subclasses. Examples : "In our school's software, the "Person" class is a superclass that provides basic information like name and age, which are then inherited by subclasses such as "Student" and "Teacher". " computing technology Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A taxon ranking below a phylum and above a class. Examples : "In the classification of animals, the superclass Gnathostomata sits between the phylum Chordata and the class Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fish). " biology organism science Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To create a superclass of. Examples : "To ensure code reusability, the software architect decided to superclass the "Employee" class to create a more general "Person" class. " technology computing Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading