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22. Inheritance: It is the method which allows one class to inherit the properties (data members and member
methods) of another class.
23. Insertion: It is the process of adding an element at any desired position in the array.
24. Internet of Things (IoT): It is an advanced network of interconnected computing devices (things) that have
embedded sensors, software, and other technologies designed to connect and exchange data with other
devices and systems over the internet.
25. Inverse: It is the proposition obtained by taking the negated antecedent and the negated consequent in a
conditional.
26. Logic gate: It is a digital circuit that depicts a logical relationship between the input and output voltages of the
circuit.
27. Merging: It is the process of combining two or more than two arrays.
28. Object: It is a unique entity that contains properties, methods and events in an object-oriented programming
language.
29. Open-source software (OSS): It is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright
holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone
and for any purpose.
30. Package: It is a container for groups of related classes, sub-classes, sub-packages, and interfaces.
31. Phishing: It refers to cybercrimes where spam email messages are sent to different people to get personal
information like user name, password, card details, etc. When a physical form of stalking is done through
technology and electronic medium then it is known as Cyberstalking.
32. Polymorphism: It is the feature of being able to allot a dissimilar meaning so that a variable, a method or an
object can have more than one form.
33. Pseudocode: It is a representation of an algorithm in any standard human readable language and mathematical
notations.
34. Recursion: It is a programming technique in which the function calls itself repeatedly until an exit condition
called the base case is achieved.
35. Recursive case: It is the condition in which the function calls itself repeatedly with the changed value of the
arguments.
36. Searching: It is used to determine whether an element is present in the array or not.
37. Sorting: It is the process of arranging the elements either in the ascending or the descending order.
38. Tautology: It is a proposition that has 1 as its truth value, and a contradiction has 0 as its truth value.
39. Unicode: It is an International character encoding standard that includes different languages, scripts and
symbols.
40. Virtual Reality: It is an artificial environment that is experienced through sensory stimuli (such as sights
and sounds) provided by a computer and in which one’s actions partially determine what happens in the
environment.
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