Question

What is the term used to describe the situation when a derived class provides a function already provided in the base class.

• A. Overloading
• B. Overriding
• C. Polymorphism
• D. Encapsulation

Answer 1

The correct option is B Overriding

Overriding used to describe the situation when a derived class provides a function already provided in the base class.

Function overriding, in object oriented programming, is a language feature that allows a subclass or child class to provide a specific implementation of a method that is already provided by one of its super classes or parent classes.

If we inherit a class into the derived class and provide a definition for one of the base class’s function again inside the derived class, then that function is said to be overridden, and this mechanism is called function overriding.