A programming language structure wherein the data and their associated processing ("methods") are defined as self-contained entities called "objects." Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the norm ...

The Oxford English Dictionary defines an object as “something placed before or presented to the eyes or other senses”, which conveys the idea that objects correspond to sensory experiences that are ...

A database that is managed by an object-oriented database management system (ODBMS). Object databases are closely aligned with a particular object-oriented programming language and enable the data in ...