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- noun computing, programming A style of
dynamic typing in which an object's current set ofmethods andproperties determines the validsemantics , rather than itsinheritance from a particularclass orimplementation of a specificinterface .
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From the so-called duck test: "If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck."
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