verb
- past tense of subclass; created a specialized class that inherits properties from a parent class
Usage: computing; programming
Examples
- The programmer subclassed the Vehicle class to create a Car class.
- She subclassed the base component to add custom functionality.
- The Button widget was subclassed to include animation effects.
- They subclassed the existing framework to meet their specific needs.
- The developer subclassed the parent class and overrode several methods.
- We subclassed the original model to handle additional data types.