To use make practical use of an abstract class, you must define a non-abstract class that extends the abstract one. It can use any of the inherited non-abstract methods. It must implement any of the abstract ones.
Sometimes a abstract class may extend another abstract class. In that case it need not implement all the non-abstract methods.
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