dynamic binding
Defering the decision about which piece of software control will transfer to until execution time. The same method name can be used to invoke different behavior (method bodies) based on the class of the object on which it is invoked; the latter is only determined at execution time. This is the opposite of static binding; it is also called polymorphism from the latin for "taking on many shapes."
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