What is polymorphism? Explain with an example.
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Answer / santosh
Polymorphism is one of the important feature of OOP's. It
consist of 2 words i.e., 'Poly' which stands for many
and 'Morphism' stands for forms.
We can divide the polymorphism into 2 types.
1. Static polymorphism
2. Dynamic polymorphism
Static polymorphism:- In this the binding is taken place in
compile time. The different types of static polymorphism
are:-
a) Function Overloading
b) Operator Overloading
Dynamic polymorphism:- In this the binding that takes place
at run-time. The difference types of dynamic polymorphism
are:-
a) Virtual function
b) Abstract class
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Answer / khadeer.k
polymorphism is one of the pillars of oops.
polymorphism in latin word which describes 'poly' means many
'morphs' means forms.
polymorphism has concept like function overloading...
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Answer / p suresh kumar
Single interface & multiple method is called polymorphism.
Ex:
Function overloading (Static polymorphism / early binding).
Function overriding (dynamic polymorphism / late binding).
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Answer / pavan raj
polymorphism means the ability to take more than one form.
This is something similar to a word having several different
meanings depending on the context.
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Answer / amol shevkari
Polymorphism is an concept of OOPS.
Polymorphism allows a client to treat different objects in
the same way even if they were created from different
classes and exhibit different behaviors.
Ex.Traffic Signal->>>>Whenever red signal is glow,the all
different type of braking systems works.i.e.all vehicles of
braking system but there implementation is different and
purpose is same.
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Answer / saranya
it is the important concept of OOP, from the greek concept
'poly' means many 'morphism' form ,from this the definition
is "the ability to take more than one form"
EXAMPLE:
method overloading(static polymorphism...early binding)
method overriding(dynamic polymorphism...late binding)
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Answer / sanish joseph
A single entity existing in difernt forms simltniosly s cald
polymorfsm.eg ovrloadn and ovrridin
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Answer / syed ahsen raza ali
polymorphism basicilly provides multiple forms to a single
function or functionality to occure.in c++(oop) context i
can quote that using 0ne functionality if we could be able
to have multiple functionalities working only on a single
object,then we can say that we had done multiple tasks by
using one operation.
thanks.
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Answer / anil sobti
polymorphism means same function or function name but
different behavior.
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Answer / amrutha
In greek Poly means 'many' and 'morph' means form.
the best example for polymorphism is Chameleon which exbits
different colors based on situation.
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