What is polymorphism?

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Polymorphism is the ability of an object to take on many forms.

It allows objects of different classes to be treated as if they were objects of the same class.
It is achieved through method overriding and method overloading.
Example: A parent class Animal can have child classes like Dog, Cat, and Cow. All of them have a common method called 'makeSound', but each of them makes a different sound.
Example: A method can be overloaded by having the same name but different parameters, while a method can be overridden by having the same name and parameters but different implementation in the child class.

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the ability of a message to be displayed in more than one form.

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Provision of single inter faceto entity of different types of the use a single symbol to represent multiple different types

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one Object or entity showing property and behavior of another object, this process called polymorphism.

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Polymorphism is the provision of a single interface to entities of different types or the use of single symbol to represent multiple different types.

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Polymorphism is the provision of a single interface to entities of different types or the use of single symbol to represent multiple different types.

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