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A class defined inside an enclosing class. See inner class.

David J. Barnes — Object-Oriented Programming with Java

Related Java terms

block
class body
fully qualified class name
inner class
interpretational inner class
local inner class
method body
non-static nested class
static nested class
subordinate inner class
top level class

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