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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
object-oriented
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Apple offered the first pretty complete version of an object-oriented program.
▪ Indeed, SunSoft hopes the whole Open Look versus Motif issue will recede with the advent of object-oriented interfaces.
▪ It will include graphical interface enhancements and offer a distributed object-oriented file system.
▪ SunSoft Inc is reportedly hard at work getting the object-oriented Distributed Objects Everywhere environment into product shape.
▪ SunSoft promises that Solaris Live!'s future includes integration with phone systems and object-oriented extensions.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
object-oriented

object-oriented \ob"ject-or"i*ent*ed\, a. (Computers) Using data structures called objects, which encapsulate data and typically are accessed by passing messages, which in turn may trigger internal procedures within the object which are invisible outside the object.

Wiktionary
object-oriented

a. (context computing programming English) Using entities called objects that can process data and exchange messages with other objects.

Usage examples of "object-oriented".

It is based from the ground up on modern object-oriented software principles.

As an object-oriented program, I adhere to the tenets of data encapsulation and inheritance.

Here was an object-oriented com­panion with artificial-intelligence links.

I had spent a fair amount of time playing with artificial-intelligence languages, like LISP, and object-oriented lan­guages such as Smalltalk.