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virtual classes

virtual classes is the plural of virtual class.

Meaning of virtual 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

Questions about virtual classes

What is virtual classes the plural of?
Virtual classes is the plural of virtual class.

Words near virtual classes in the dictionary

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

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