subclassed
subclassed is the simple past and past participle of subclass.
Meaning of subclass
Verb
subclass (third-person singular simple present subclasses, present participle subclassing, simple past and past participle subclassed)
- (in object-oriented programming) To create a subclass of (some class).
- I subclassed the Button class to create a more specialised FancyButton class for my user interface.
- To cause (an object) to act as an instance of a subclass (by creating the desired subclass and instantiating an object of this subclass).
- Since Windows knows about these events, your application should be able to know about them as well. In order to accomplish this, subclass the window of a form or control, intercepting all of its events.2000, James D. Foxall, MCSD in a Nutshell: The Visual Basic Exams, page 93
Questions about subclassed
- What is subclassed the simple past and past participle of?
- Subclassed is the simple past and past participle of subclass.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: subclassed (page history and authors); subclass (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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