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Overloading - providing more than one method with the same name but with different signatures.
Overriding - replacing a superclass's implementation with your own.
- Signatures must be identical.
- Return type must be the same.
- Only accessible non-static methods can be overridden.
- A subclass can determine whether a parameter in an overridden method is final.
- Available in all non-static methods of a class.
super.method() - uses the superclass's implementation of
method.
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