OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does object-oriented programming language mean? 

• OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE (noun)
  The noun OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE has 1 sense:

1. (computer science) a programming language that enables the programmer to associate a set of procedures with each type of data structure

  Familiarity information: OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE (noun)

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Meaning:

(computer science) a programming language that enables the programmer to associate a set of procedures with each type of data structure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

object-oriented programing language; object-oriented programming language

Context example:

C++ is an object-oriented programming language that is an extension of C

Hypernyms ("object-oriented programming language" is a kind of...):

programing language; programming language ((computer science) a language designed for programming computers)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "object-oriented programming language"):

Java (a platform-independent object-oriented programming language)