To disagree with something or someone; especially in a Court of Law, to raise an objection
A data structure that implements some feature and has an associated set of operations For RPC applications, an object can be anything that an RPC server defines and identifies to its clients (using an object UUID) Often an RPC object is a physical computing resource such as a database, directory, device or processor Alternatively, an RPC object can be an abstraction that is meaningful to an application, such as a service or the location of a server See also object UUID
A computational grouping of operations and data into a modular unit An object is defined by the interface it presents to others, its behavior when operations on its interface are invoked, and its state
The object of a particular feeling or reaction is the person or thing it is directed towards or that causes it. The object of her hatred was 24-year-old model Ros French The object of great interest at the Temple was a large marble tower built in memory of Buddha see also sex object
An object is the encapsulation of behavior and/or data in a programmed unit; when an object encapsulates both behavior and data, we refer to it as a component (for example, a djinn is a component) One research question the Infospheres Group is investigating is allowable behaviors of djinns Many of the Java classes provided with the Infospheres package allow the creation of objects such as Mailboxes and Messages; the behavior of an object is controllable through its interface
In object-oriented programming, a variable comprising both routines and data that is treated as a discrete entity An object is based on a specific model, where a client using an object's services gains access to the object's data through an interface consisting of a set of methods or related functions The client can then call these methods to perform operations
A word, phrase, or clause toward which an action is directed, or is considered to be directed; as, the object of a transitive verb
the focus of cognitions or feelings; "objects of thought"; "the object of my affection"
The OBJECT element is a proposal from the W3C that will replace and absorb the many methods in use to include multi-media and embedded content in HTML documents This element can replace all the functionality in the existing APPLET, EMBED, BGSOUND, SOUND and IMG elements
In programming, an element that combines data (properties) and behavior (methods) in a single container of code Objects inherit their properties and methods from the classes above them in the hierarchy and can modify the properties and methods to suit their own purposes
An object is anything that has a fixed shape or form, that you can touch or see, and that is not alive. an object the shape of a coconut In the cosy consulting room the children are surrounded by familiar objects
A programming unit that groups together a data structure (fields) and the operations (methods) that can use or affect that data Objects are the principal building blocks of object-oriented programs
Also called a table in database parlance, an object is a single logical grouping of attributes For example, in the Data Warehouse, the Person object contains attributes such as Last Name and Age Each object is represented in GQL as a single icon
An instance of a particular class In general, any number of objects may be constructed from a class definition (see singleton, however) The class to which an object belongs defines the general characteristics of all instances of that class Within those characteristics, an object will behave according to the current state of its attributes and environment
a general term for any 'thing' which is conditioned by the subject's representation, and so is capable of being known The thing in itself is a thing which cannot become an object (Cf subject; see thing in itself )
A technical computing term for an independent piece of computer code with its data Hence, object-oriented programming, and distributed objects, where objects are connected over a network