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Superclass

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A high-level class that passes attributes and methods down the hierarchy to subclasses.
  2. 2
    (biology) a taxonomic class below a phylum and above a class wordnet
  3. 3
    A taxon ranking below a phylum and above a class.
Verb
  1. 1
    To create a superclass of. transitive

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

Etymology

Etymology 1

From super- + class.

Etymology 2

From super- + class.

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