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| overriding | has definition The situation where a method local to a class is used in place of a method that otherwise would have been inherited |  | 
| is a subtopic of 2.6 - The Effect of Inheritance Hierarchies on Polymorphism and Variable Declarations |  | |
| is a kind of practice |  |