JAVA VOCABULARY 2025
inheritance - ANSWER relationship between a subclass and its superclass, the
subclass is more specialized than the superclass
constructor - ANSWER a method that initializes a newly instantiated object
getter - ANSWER a method that gets parameters
setter - ANSWER a method that sets parameters
object - ANSWER a value of a class type (Rectangle box = new ractangle -->
rectangle is the Object)
reference - ANSWER a value that denotes the location of an object in memory
(Rectangle box = new Rectangle --> box is the reference to the object)
nested loops - ANSWER a loop that is contained within another loop
typecasting - ANSWER refers to changing an entity of one datatype into
another
condition - ANSWER a circumstance that must be met
, overloading - ANSWER a method with the same name, but different
arguments
overriding - ANSWER redefining a method in a subclass
compiler - ANSWER a program that translates code into machine language
base class - ANSWER a general class, from which a more specialized class
inherits
derived class - ANSWER a class that inherits variables and methods from a
superclass but adds instance variables, adds methods, or redefines methods
polymorphism - ANSWER selecting a method among several methods that
have the same name on the basis of the actual types of implicit parameters
ArrayList - ANSWER a class that implements a growable array of objects
String - ANSWER a sequence of characters
for-each-loop - ANSWER for (Type variable: collection){
Statement
}
do-while-loop - ANSWER do{
statement
}while(condition)
inheritance - ANSWER relationship between a subclass and its superclass, the
subclass is more specialized than the superclass
constructor - ANSWER a method that initializes a newly instantiated object
getter - ANSWER a method that gets parameters
setter - ANSWER a method that sets parameters
object - ANSWER a value of a class type (Rectangle box = new ractangle -->
rectangle is the Object)
reference - ANSWER a value that denotes the location of an object in memory
(Rectangle box = new Rectangle --> box is the reference to the object)
nested loops - ANSWER a loop that is contained within another loop
typecasting - ANSWER refers to changing an entity of one datatype into
another
condition - ANSWER a circumstance that must be met
, overloading - ANSWER a method with the same name, but different
arguments
overriding - ANSWER redefining a method in a subclass
compiler - ANSWER a program that translates code into machine language
base class - ANSWER a general class, from which a more specialized class
inherits
derived class - ANSWER a class that inherits variables and methods from a
superclass but adds instance variables, adds methods, or redefines methods
polymorphism - ANSWER selecting a method among several methods that
have the same name on the basis of the actual types of implicit parameters
ArrayList - ANSWER a class that implements a growable array of objects
String - ANSWER a sequence of characters
for-each-loop - ANSWER for (Type variable: collection){
Statement
}
do-while-loop - ANSWER do{
statement
}while(condition)
