multiple inheritance

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Java

The ability of a class or interface to extend more than one class or interface. In Java, multiple inheritance is only available in the following circumstances

An interface may extend more than one interface.
A class may implement more than one interface.

Only single inheritance is possible for a class extending another class.

David J. Barnes — Object-Oriented Programming with Java

Technology› Programming

The features you got from your mother and father, mixed together unpredictably. (See also "inheritance", and "single inheritance".) In computer languages (including Perl), the notion that a given class may have multiple direct ancestors or base classes.

Perl — Perl Glossary