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virtual class

virtual class noun: a nested inner class whose functions and member variables can be overridden and redefined by subclasses of an outer class.

Noun

virtual class (plural virtual classes)

  1. (object-oriented programming) A nested inner class whose functions and member variables can be overridden and redefined by subclasses of an outer class.
  2. An online class.
  3. (uncommon) A hypothesized new social and economic class exploiting and advocating digital technology; a digital elite.
    • The virtual class has driven to global power along the digital superhighway. Representing perfectly the expansionary interests of the recombinant commodity-form, the virtual class has seized the imagination of contemporary culture by conceiving a techno-utopian high-speed cybernetic grid for...1994, Arthur Kroker, Michael A. Weinstein, Data Trash, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, pages 6–7
    • Lacking the free time of the hippies, work itself has become the main route to self-fulfilment for much of the ‘virtual class’.1995 September, Richard Barbrook, Andy Cameron, “The Californian Ideology”, in Mute, volume 1, number 3, →ISSN, archived from the original on 19 Oct 2021

Examples of virtual class in a sentence

  • The virtual class has driven to global power along the digital superhighway.1994, Arthur Kroker, Michael A. Weinstein, Data Trash, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, pages 6–7:
  • But I also notice that many members of the virtual class have deep feelings of anxiety and ambivalence about projects they're involved in.1996 February, Jean-Hugues Roy, quoting Arthur Kroker, “Way New Leftists”, in Wired, →ISSN:

Forms of virtual class

pluralvirtual classes

Questions about virtual class

What does virtual class mean?
Virtual class means a nested inner class whose functions and member variables can be overridden and redefined by subclasses of an outer class.
How do you use virtual class in a sentence?
The virtual class has driven to global power along the digital superhighway.
What part of speech is virtual class?
Virtual class is a noun.
What is the plural of virtual class?
The plural of virtual class is virtual classes.

Words near virtual class in the dictionary

  1. virtual assistant
  2. virtual assistants
  3. virtual autism
  4. virtual backlot
  5. virtual backlots
  6. virtual class
  7. virtual classes
  8. virtual communities
  9. virtual community
  10. virtual consumption
  11. virtual currencies

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