Inheritance (object-oriented programming)#Subclasses and superclasses

A derived class, and subclass, subclass ( from English- subclass ), subclass or child class (from English child class ), written in the object -oriented programming, a report prepared by the programming concept of inheritance descendant of another class, the base class. In some programming languages, such as C , it is also possible to derive multiple inheritance classes over a plurality of other classes.

The derived class inherits all non-private attributes and methods of the base class. In addition to these inherited member can be declared its own in the derived class. An inherited method can be overridden by a method is declared with the same signature in the derived class.