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Subject	access directly	destroy in	associate with	call by	is a subtopic of	take the place of	access	declare by	access from	overuse	create	refer to	access by		has part	represent	return to	specify	contain	have purpose	is a synonym of	pass as	allocate when	allocate once for	implement	have scope	be part of	declared in	operate on	belong to	is a kind of	used	initialize by	define	have access modifier	refer to by	affect	be accessible to	hide	declare anywhere in	use	override	be a member of	have	have part	return	has definition	be
class method	any instance variable			using the name of the class, followed by a dot, followed by the name of the method (the name of the class can be omitted when calling a class method in the current class)	Methods		all instance variables of all objects of its class		any instance of its class or directly from its class		an object by instantiating a class		other methods and variables in any class in the same package by default	if a class method is public then it can be used by all objects	a block of implementation code		its caller from only one place which should be the last statement	the behaviour of the class	return statement unless it has a void return type	implementing functions such as initializing a class, or operating on the complete set of instances of a class	static method	an argument to a method or constructor			the behaviour of an object or the behaviour of a class		1 class		0 or more class variables of its class	a class	method			its return type	public or private or protected		the class as a whole, not a particular instance of the class		instance variables, class variables from other objects		the super method to invoke a method declared in the superclass			'this' value when it is executing	method signature	a value that is of the return type of the method or a subtype of that type	A method that is invoked without reference to a particular object	public except for those that will definitely need to be called from outside the package
class variable		the block where it is declared	any instance of any class		Members	global variables used in other languages		giving the data type followed by the name of the variable	any instance method of the class any class method of the class			a class or an object or a primitive datum	other variables and methods in any class in the same package by default		value	the state of a class			only values that are of the same type as the variable or a subtype of the variable's type	to refer to an object or a class or a primitive datum	static variable		the class is loaded	a class			a class	the body of the class (not inside a method)		1 class	member variable	to store default or 'constant' values that are widely used by methods in a class lookup tables and similar structures used in algorithms in a particular class	an assignment statement	an attribute of an entire class	public or private or protected	specifying the name of the class, followed by a dot, followed by the name of the variable		the code in its class		a class outside of a method			a class or an object	a name			A data item present in a class that is shared by all instances of that class	as private as possible

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