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Subject associate with is a subtopic of take the place of access from overuse access by refer to refer you place in represent define by use by is a synonym of mark as allocate once for allocate when make implement be part of declared in belong to used define refer to by maintain have has definition be

class variable any instance of any class Members global variables used in other languages
any instance method of the class
any class method of the class
other variables and methods in any class in the same package by default a class or an object or a primitive datum the state of a class every method of the class static variable static a class the class is loaded a class the body of the class (not inside a method) 1 class 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 attribute of an entire class specifying the name of the class, followed by a dot, followed by the name of the variable a name A data item present in a class that is shared by all instances of that class as private as possible

instance variable Members all methods of its class an object or a primitive join the name of the variable with a dot to the instance variable name.
Example:
variableName.instanceVariableName
a class such that there is no needless duplication of it, and such that it is useful in all the subclasses of the class in which it is defined an instance variable definition object variable private to prevent direct access to instance variable - accessor methods should be used instead to protect data abstraction an attribute or an association an object part of its object's state comment if it is non-obvious Any item of data that is associated with a particular object. as private as reasonably possible - almost never make an instance variable public

member variable in an interface Interfaces other variables and methods in any class in the same package by default a class or an object or a primitive datum comment if it is non-obvious static and final

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Subject	associate with	is a subtopic of	take the place of	access from	overuse	access by	refer to	refer you	place in	represent	define by	use by	is a synonym of	mark as	allocate once for	allocate when	make	implement	be part of	declared in	belong to	used	define	refer to by	maintain	have	has definition	be
class variable	any instance of any class	Members	global variables used in other languages	any instance method of the class any class method of the class		other variables and methods in any class in the same package by default	a class or an object or a primitive datum			the state of a class		every method of the class	static variable	static	a class	the class is loaded			a class	the body of the class (not inside a method)	1 class	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 attribute of an entire class	specifying the name of the class, followed by a dot, followed by the name of the variable		a name	A data item present in a class that is shared by all instances of that class	as private as possible
instance variable		Members				all methods of its class	an object or a primitive	join the name of the variable with a dot to the instance variable name. Example: variableName.instanceVariableName	a class such that there is no needless duplication of it, and such that it is useful in all the subclasses of the class in which it is defined		an instance variable definition		object variable				private to prevent direct access to instance variable - accessor methods should be used instead to protect data abstraction	an attribute or an association	an object						part of its object's state	comment if it is non-obvious	Any item of data that is associated with a particular object.	as private as reasonably possible - almost never make an instance variable public
member variable in an interface		Interfaces				other variables and methods in any class in the same package by default	a class or an object or a primitive datum																			comment if it is non-obvious		static and final