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public comparison table

Subject	declare	has definition	modify	is a synonym of	is a kind of	is partitioned into	is an instance of
access modifier		A keyword that specifies how restricted the access is to a class or interface or variable or method		visibility modifier	keyword	private, protected, public
public	a public class, public method or public variable	A keyword that indicates that a method, class or variable may be accessed by any object	methods, classes, and variables				access modifier

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