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OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(computer science) a programming language that enables the programmer to associate a set of procedures with each type of data structure
Example:
C++ is an object-oriented programming language that is an extension of C
Synonyms:
object-oriented programing language; object-oriented programming language
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("object-oriented programming language" is a kind of...):
programing language; programming language ((computer science) a language designed for programming computers)
Domain category:
computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "object-oriented programming language"):
Java (a platform-independent object-oriented programming language)
