access specifier
noun1
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences, Software A keyword applied to a variable, method, etc. that indicates which other parts of the program are permitted to access it.
Object-oriented programming
- Examples of access specifiers in C# are internal, private, protected, and public.
- Java has the access specifiers private, protected, public, and the default specifier package that does not have a keyword.
- Synonyms
- access modifier
- Hypernyms
- specifier