Slicing
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In computer science, slicing is an operation to slice off a target value by size of the base type, thus extra parts will be gone.
For example, in C++
class A
{
int age;
String name;
};
class B : public A
{
bool is_male;
};
B b;
A a;
a = b; // slicing occurs.
See also: Object-oriented programming