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protected
subject			fact

protected	declares protected access
	has definition A keyword that indicates that a method or variable may be accessed by any object in the same class (and its subclasses including those in a different compilation unit in another package), by all objects in the same compilation unit, and by all objects in the same package
	is a subtopic of Access Control
	is an instance of access modifier
	is used to declare protected method
	may not be used when declaring members of an interface
access modifier	has purpose to control which other code can have access to a method or variable
	precedes the definition of a method, instance variable or class variable
	see also access mode
syntactic unit	has syntax rule bold = mandatory italic = non-terminal normal font = optional