Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index In object oriented programming, a virtual method is a method that when overidden by a superclass will be used by the base class. Normally when a method is overridden only the superclass will use the overidden method, and the base will continue to use the original. Virtual methods are implemented with a virtual method table. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.