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access modifier comparison table

Subject	mean that	allow	use when	declare	has definition	modify	is a kind of	is an instance of
access modifier of an overriding method		less access than the overridden method's access modifier allows					access modifier
private	a member is only accessible to its class		declaring members of an interface	private method	A keyword that means a variable or method is only accessible within its class			access modifier
protected			declaring members of an interface	protected method	A keyword that indicates that a method or variable may be accessed by any object in the same class (and its subclasses including those in a different compilation unit in another package), by all objects in the same compilation unit, and by all objects in the same package			access modifier
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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