Inheritance vs Interface - What's the difference?
inheritance | interface |
The passing of title to an estate upon death.
(lb) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.
(lb) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
In object-oriented programming, the mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.
The point of interconnection between entities.
(chemistry, physics) A thin layer or boundary between different substances or two phases of a single substance.
(computing) The point of interconnection between systems or subsystems.
(computing) The connection between a user and a machine.
(computing, object-oriented) The connection between parts of software.
(computing, object-oriented) In object-oriented programming, a piece of code defining a set of operations that other code must implement.
to construct an interface for, to connect through an interface
to be an interface, to be into an interface
As a noun inheritance
is the passing of title to an estate upon death.inheritance
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(wikipedia inheritance)Alternative forms
* enheritance (obsolete) * enheritaunce (obsolete) * inheritaunce (obsolete)Noun
References
* (EtymOnLine)interface
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(wikipedia interface)Noun
(en noun)- Public relations firms often serve as the interface between a company and the press.
- If water and oil are mixed together, they tend to separate, and at equilibrium they are in different strata with an oil-water interface in between.
- The surface of a lake is a water-air interface .
- The data is sent over the air interface to the remote system.
- The options are selected via the user interface .
- This interface is implemented by several Java classes.
- The Audio and Video classes both implement the IPlayable interface .
