# virtual inheritance

> in object-oriented programming, inheritance in which the superclass object is accessed through an additional layer of indirection, such that in diamond-shaped multiple inheritance, the common superclass appears only once

**Wikidata**: [Q1526910](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1526910)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_inheritance)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/virtual-inheritance


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013