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protected comparison table

Subject	use when	declare	has definition	is a synonym of	is a kind of	is partitioned into	is an instance of
access modifier			A keyword that specifies how restricted the access is to a class or interface or variable or method	visibility modifier	keyword	private, protected, public
protected	declaring members of an interface	protected method	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				access modifier

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