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The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

object method In object-oriented programming, a function that is called, or "invoked", on an object, as opposed to a class method which is invoked on a class. For example, a class "Person" might have an object method to return a person's name and a class method to return the number of people. An object method called on an object of class C may be defined by C or may be inherited (inheritance) from one of C's superclasses (class hierarchy). (2017-04-30)