E
encapsulation

A process that allows implementation details irrelevant to a client programmer to be kept private and not exposed as public methods or public data members; related to data hiding but more comprehensive

extends

The keyword used when inheriting from a class; for example, class Canary extends Bird

Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML)

See XHTML.

Extensible Markup Language (XML)

See XML.

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