base class

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

  base class
  superclass
  
     <programming> (Or "superclass") The class from which another
     class (a "subclass") inherits, the class it is based on.
  
     "base class" is the term used in C++.  The objects of  the
     superclass are a superset of the objects of the subclass.
  
     See inheritance.
  
     (2004-01-31)