What do you call methods that share the same name but differ in their parameter lists and implementations?

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18 Apr 2019
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Method overloading refers to defining multiple methods with the same name but different parameter types or counts within the same class. Method overriding involves redefining a method from a parent class in a subclass. Constructors are special methods used to initialize objects. Therefore, the correct term for methods with identical names but distinct parameters and definitions is method overloading.

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