object
object A term loosely used to describe an identifiable component of a software system or design, now more commonly applied to a component that is in some sense self-contained, having an identifiable boundary. In
object-oriented design, objects are the basic components from which the model of the system to be implemented is constructed.
In
object-oriented programming, the term has a more precise definition. An object is an instance of a component comprising data structures and procedures (called
methods) for manipulating the structures. These methods are activated by
messages sent to the object, and the interior structure of the object is entirely hidden from any other object (a property called
encapsulation). Objects are derived from a template, and the collection of objects that are instances of a particular template are said to form a
class. A particularly important feature is
inheritance, which allows new classes to be defined in terms of existing classes, inheriting some or all of the properties of an existing class. Some systems implement
multiple inheritance, which allows a class to inherit properties from more than one parent class.
See also
object-oriented architecture,
object-oriented language.
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Richard Spencer; Napoleonic War naval hero and Australian pioneer.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2005; 437 words
; 1920694404 Richard Spencer; Napoleonic War naval hero and Australian pioneer. Chessell, Gwen. U...man of action, a rising star during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and a Government Resident of Albany, Australia. Chessell...
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Rescued from the ramparts; Relics of Scottish Napoleonic War hero on display for first time.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 7/26/2002; 700+ words
; ...British Army in the Peninsular War in With Napoleon's forces...fight back to Dunkirk in World War II, Moore and his army held...display from today at the National War Museum of Scotland at Edinburgh...were two of the stars of the Napoleonic wars and both were part of the tradition...
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Napoleonic war scene re-enacted
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo; 6/14/2000; 342 words
; ...home for military history enthusiasts later this month. A Napoleonic scene is being re-enacted at the museum by a display team...Durham Light Infantry, just back from the 1814 Peninsular War. Museum curator Phil Philo said: "We're delighted to have...
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British Poetry and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Visions of Conflict.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Visions of Conflict...Romanticism and War: A Study of Romantic...Writers and the Napoleonic Wars (Palgrave Macmillan...important to the war effort: "poetry...Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars to the British...
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The victory of seapower; winning the Napoleonic War 1806-1814. (reprint, 1998).(book)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2006; 473 words
; 1845600126 The victory of seapower; winning the Napoleonic War 1806-1814. (reprint, 1998) Woodman, Richard. Mercury Books 2005 192 pages $24.95 Paperback DC153 Organized chronologically...
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Encyclopedia of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.(Encyclopedia of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: A Political, Social and Military History)(Brief article)(Book review)
Newspaper article from: Internet Bookwatch; 8/1/2007; 558 words
; ...the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars Gregory Fremont-Barnes, Editor...the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: A Political, Social and...where the French Revolution or Napoleonic Wars are taught: it packs in...
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Who Was Who in the Napoleonic Wars
Magazine article from: RUSI Journal; 10/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; WHO WAS WHO IN THE NAPOLEONIC WARS by Philip J Haythornthwaite...Haythomthwaite is a respected Napoleonic historian with a string of...a valuable edition to the Napoleonic debate. It is also extremely...twenty year long European war that ended with a complete...
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The Czar's General: The Memoirs of a Russian General in the Napoleonic Wars.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Parameters; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...of a Russian General in the Napoleonic Wars, has provided a wonderful...known to those familiar with Napoleonic history. Conversely, Alexey...artilleryman in 1791, prior to the Napoleonic era, and then rose in rank...chapters to the "Great Patriotic War of 1812." The particulars...
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From Cape Cod, he plots Napoleonic Wars Bernard Cornwell has become military fiction's Sharpe-shooter
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 7/30/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...success of his series of Napoleonic war novels featuring the...infantry captain during the Napoleonic Wars -- a series that Cornwell...in the American Civil War; "Redcoat," a novel...a "prequel" to the Napoleonic War books, set in India...
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Simon Bainbridge. British Poetry and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Visions of Conflict.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Studies in Romanticism; 12/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Visions of Conflict...the imagining of war" and that "war...poetry mediated the wars to the British public...the imagining of war played a similar...readers to make war visible and emotionally...British Poetry and the Napoleonic ...
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Napoleonic Wars
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...and culture. The wars encompassed eight separate...the ascendancy of Napoleonic power in Europe; 1807...immediately inherited the war of the Second Coalition, the last of the wars of the French Revolution...1803 Britain declared war on France, inaugurating the Napoleonic Wars. ...
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Napoleonic Wars, Impact on the U.S. Economy (Issue)
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
...bloody conflict, the Napoleonic Wars (1803 –...drastically. As the Napoleonic Wars drained the energies...the beginning of the War of 1812 (1812 –...associated with the wars in Europe. As a result...French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the United ...
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Napoleonic Wars, Espionage During
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security
Napoleonic Wars, Espionage During...x2588; ALEXANDR IOFFE The Napoleonic wars pitted France, led by...Neapolitan Kingdom all waged war against France in various...intense activity during the Napoleonic wars. This rise in espionage...
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Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars (1793–1815). Following...revolutionary France announced war against the states of the ancien...Elba. The final flourish of the Napoleonic wars was the ‘Hundred Days...
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Napoleonic wars
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
Napoleonic wars, see revolutionary and napoleonic wars .
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