Object facts for kids

Object could mean:

• Object (philosophy), a thing, being or concept
  • Physical entity, something that is tangible and within the grasp of the senses
• Object (grammar), a sentence element, such as a direct object or an indirect object
• Object (task), an aim, target or objective
• Object (physics), a collection of masses
• Object, an entity treated by mathematical category theory
• 3D model, a representation of a physical object
• Object (National Register of Historic Places), a classification used by the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
• (As a verb, pronounced: ob-JECT): to make an objection, to say that one disagrees with something.

Computing

• Object (computer science), a language mechanism for binding data with methods that operate on that data
  • Object-oriented programming (OOP), an object is an instance of a class
• Object file, the output of a compiler or other translator program (also known as "object code")
• Object (Information Processing), an information source for an Information Processor
• HTML object tag

Popular culture

• "Object", a song by The Cure from their 1979 album Three Imaginary Boys
• Objects from the 2006 television series The Lost Room

Related pages

• Objection
• Objective

See also

In Spanish: Objeto para niños