Abstract Base Classes

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
ABC
Pronunciation
/ˈæbˌstrækt beɪs ˈklæsɪz/
Category
Miscellaneous
Related Field
Unclassified

Examples in Context

  1. To do so, developers would need to manually implement the provided interfaces and extend the abstract base classes.
  2. Data categories are like abstract base classes; a category might be able to represent all models of car, for instance.
  3. Another use of abstract classes is to create a single base class for multiple derived classes in which that base class should never be instantiated.
  4. In a base class, abstract class is defined by declaring pure virtual function, a derived class must define all inherited pure virtual functions of its base classes to be concrete.

Other meanings of ABC