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method

Method is the word commonly used in Java for what is called, in some other languages, a function, subroutine, or procedure. Methods are a piece a code that is called by a name. Instance methods depend on an object instance, and are allowed to read and manipulate that objects data. A static method does not depend on an instance, and therefore can only access class data and what data is passed in to the method.





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