abstract class

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abstract class - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  abstract class
  
     <programming> In object-oriented programming, a class
     designed only as a parent from which sub-classes may be
     derived, but which is not itself suitable for instantiation.
     Often used to "abstract out" incomplete sets of features which
     may then be shared by a group of sibling sub-classes which add
     different variations of the missing pieces.
  
     (1994-11-08)